The Maricopa County Elections Department received more than 1.6 million early ballots for the Nov. 3 election./Image courtesy The Maricopa County Elections Department ballot processing livestream.
By Jen Fifield | Arizona Republic
Two Arizona Senate leaders say they are not satisfied with the new audit of voting systems the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved earlier this week.
Saying that the audit must be broader than the one proposed by the vendors the county plans to hire, Senate President Karen Fann, R-Prescott, announced Friday that the state Senate “has hired an independent, qualified, forensic auditing firm to analyze 2020 election results in Maricopa County.”
Fann did not name the company and a spokesperson for Senate Republicans did not immediately respond to a request for information.
The county has not provided the Senate access to the 2020 ballots.
The county supervisors said in a statement on Friday that the board “respects the Arizona Senate’s decision to hire a company to audit the elections data and documents the board has provided to date.”
