Trump-friendly Cyber ​​Ninjas Examination of the Voices in Arizona Nonetheless Reveals Biden Received

A draft report of the Republican-backed 2020 election results review in Arizona’s largest county – which has been derided by critics as a chaotic stunt aimed at perpetuating the election fraud conspiracies widespread by former President Donald Trump – has actually confirmed the winners, the said District.

The heavily delayed report by Cyber ​​Ninjas, a Florida-based company whose owner had spread pro-Trump conspiracies, had been extolled by Trump himself.

But the draft “confirms that the county’s campaigning for the 2020 general election was correct and that the candidates confirmed as winners actually won,” the Maricopa County’s official account tweeted Thursday night.

“Unfortunately, the report is also riddled with errors and flawed conclusions about how Maricopa County conducted the 2020 general election,” the county tweeted.

Instead of revealing that Trump defeated President Joe Biden in the most populous county in the competitive swing state, cyber ninjas have 99 additional votes for the Democrat and 261 fewer for, according to The New York Times, which received a copy of the draft Trump as tallied before.

“That should be the end of the story. Everything else is just noise,” said Jack Sellers, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, in a statement.

“But I’m sure it won’t,” he added, predicting that the report accused his board of directors of not working with cyber ninjas. “How could we partner with an investigation led by people who have no idea how to run an election, let alone one in the second largest constituency in the United States?”

Trump claimed in a statement Friday morning that the media misrepresented the results of cyber ninjas, saying, “I heard it was very different” from what was reported.

He claimed the company had found “indisputable evidence” of fraud, although he admitted he had not seen the report himself, and requested an investigation by the Attorney General.

Biden beat Trump in Maricopa by more than 45,000 votes, according to the NBC News count. Biden beat Trump in the state with a total of around 10,000 votes. Arizona county officials who conducted handcounting tests in the days following the November 3 election found no inconsistencies or irregularities in many counties.

Cyber ​​Ninjas’ draft report is due to be released to the public on Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. ET by the Arizona Senate Republicans who hired the company, despite having no experience with electoral audits.

House Democrats Thursday called Cyber ​​Ninjas CEO Doug Logan to testify at an October 7th hearing after he “repeatedly refused” to follow up their investigation into the “questionable test”.

Logan tweeted the hashtag #StoptheSteal in December, which had become a slogan among Trump and his supporters who claimed his election loss to Biden was rigged.

A month later, on January 6, Trump spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally outside the White House, ordering his supporters to march to the Capitol to put pressure on Republicans against the results of the electoral college major states to object. Hundreds of Trump’s supporters broke into the Capitol, forced a joint session of Congress to go into hiding and temporarily prevented them from confirming Biden’s victory.

Last month, cyber ninjas missed a deadline for their full report to be filed, in part because Logan and two others got “pretty sick” with the coronavirus, Republicans said at the time.

Maricopa County and state Republican spokesmen did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for further comments on the results of the draft report.

Democrats as well as some Republicans in Arizona have denounced the exam as politically motivated and incompetent. Election experts have also spoken out against the verification and its handling by cyber ninjas.

House Oversight Committee Chairs Carolyn Maloney, DN.Y., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Posted a list of concerns to Logan in July describing his company’s inexperience with reports of “sloppy and unsafe” Practices and evidence cited by those funding the effort “have attempted to advance the” big lie “of exposed voters
Allegations of fraud. “

The Democrats requested records of cyber ninjas who refused to comply, arguing that lawmakers’ demands were “vague,” “inadequately defined,” or “overwhelmed”.

In a letter to Logan Thursday, Maloney and Raskin said, “It is important that you testify before the committee about your company’s participation in the Maricopa County audit of the issues raised in this letter and the committee’s previous letters to you and your unwarranted refusal to submit documents to the committee. “