The 2020 Presidential race ends in Maricopa County with a narrow margin of voters in Arizona. With the election filled with claims over voter fraud and Arizona being a vital state for Donald Trump’s reelection, republicans hired an independent firm to conduct an audit into the election results in Maricopa county. Last week, the independent firm named Cyber Ninjas gave their testimony of the results of their hand conducted audit and confirmed what many voters already knew: Biden won the election in Maricopa County by a margin of only forty five thousand votes.
The independent firm Cyber Ninjas, contracted to carry out an audit of the 2020 Presidential Election in Maricopa County, is controversial among many Arizonans. Some officials have gone as far to say the audit wasted six million dollars of taxpayer money so Cyber Ninjas could tell them what they already know. Although this audit does not call for a decertification of the 2020 election, it did uncover some discrepancies in the final vote. One being an additional 360 votes to President Biden, as well as ten thousand potential voters who voted in different counties. Arizona Senate President Karen Fann noted these findings have sparked the Arizona Senate to begin writing legislation that would create an “unimpeachable electoral process”. Some of these provisions include improving signature verification on ballots and cyber security. These findings have been sent by the Senate to the desk of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich who’s election integrity team is currently reviewing the results.
Although the audit is almost completely identical to Maricopa County’s original 2020 Presidential Election vote count, Cyber Ninjas did include in their final report that human error is present in their hand conducted count. One flaw of the voting system that made it difficult for the firm to identify any potential counterfeit ballots is the lack of a standardized paper stock used by election administrators. Even though these findings are not significant enough to change the results of the race, they do highlight aspects of the US voting system that needs further improvement.
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