“Cyber Ninjas fails to meet industry standards for any credible audit, much less for an election audit,” wrote Hobbs. The same day Fann revealed that the sham report had not been completed, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, told reporters the audit findings were “not worth the paper they’re printed on.” The week prior, her office had issued a 45-page report outlining various issues related to Cyber Ninjas’ chain of custody, security, transparency and documentation policies and procedures. “Stop the Steal” lead organizer Ali Alexander, a Republican operative and friend of Roger Stone, boasted in an interview with the far-right Michigan-based Church Militant that Stop the Steal “owns all of Arizona, except the secretary of state ” The Arizona Republican Party played an integral role in the January 6 coup attempt. In the same email, she boasted that she had been in “numerous conversations with Rudy Guiliani over the past weeks trying to get this done.” That would be one of our last options to make a difference in the outcome of the 2020 election.”ĭefending her efforts to overturn the election, Fann wrote in a Decememail that she had received a “personal call” from Trump, who “thanks us for pushing to prove any fraud.” In a Decememail, Fann, replying to a constituent, noted the importance of the Electoral College certification on January 6, 2021, writing that “we are all hoping any substantiated information from any state regarding voter fraud can be brought and verified by January 6, 2021, when Congress convenes to give the final ‘blessing’ on the election. Emails released in June, after being obtained by the nonprofit legal group American Oversight through a Freedom of Information Act request, show that former President Donald Trump and his then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani were in “frequent contact” with Fann following Trump’s electoral defeat. Franklin, File)įann has been a leading proponent of Trump’s election lies and supported his attempted coup this past January. 7, 2020, supporters of President Donald Trump rally outside the Maricopa County Recorder's Office in Phoenix. In addition to producing the film and a book with the same title, Byrne has been the lead private sponsor of the Arizona audit, contributing $3.25 million to the effort.
It was produced by millionaire libertarian and former CEO Patrick Byrne. The film posits that the Central Intelligence Agency worked against Trump to steal the election. Logan is a far-right conspiracy theorist, revealed to be “Anon,” a member of the fascistic QAnon group, in The Deep Rig propaganda film released earlier this year.
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The Republican president of the Arizona Senate, Karen Fann, issued a statement saying the full draft report, which was supposed to be sent to a Senate audit and legal team to review “for accuracy, documentation and clarity,” would not be forthcoming because “CEO Doug Logan and two other members of the five-person audit team have tested positive for COVID-19 and are quite sick.” Initially, the draft report was due to be issued in June. That deadline had already been extended once before. On August 23, Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, a pro-Trump company charged with overseeing the bogus “forensic audit” in Maricopa County, Arizona, failed to release a full draft report on its findings by its previously announced deadline.
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