Only guilty people act like the dems are acting....
You mean folks like the Republican-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors?
What a clown show! Not only is this fake "audit" exclusively for fanatical Trump bum kissers, the gross incompetence by the state senate's Trumpies costs normal taxpayers big time!
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs told Maricopa County officials... that her office may not allow the county to reuse hundreds of vote-counting machines that the county gave the state Senate for its "general election audit." ...
The county broke the chain of custody, or the procedures for properly securing and tracking the machines, when it was required to give the machines to the state Senate under subpoenas... if the county tries to use the machines again, even if it performs a full analysis in an attempt to determine whether the machines were still safe to use, her office would "consider decertification proceedings." ...
Replacing the machines would cost the county millions.
County officials turned over the voting machines, as well as nearly 2.1 million ballots and voter information from the Nov. 3 election after a judge ruled the state Senate's subpoenas for the items were valid. The state Senate then provided the items to private contractors, headed by... Cyber Ninjas.
Hobbs said her office consulted with election technology and security experts, including at the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, who agreed that once chain of custody is broken, the machines shouldn't be used again.
"After a loss of physical custody and control, no comprehensive methods exist to fully rehabilitate the compromised equipment or provide adequate assurance that they remain safe to use," she said in the letter...
The private contractors hired by Arizona Senate President Karen Fann had unfettered and unmonitored access to the machines. It's unprecedented for private companies and individuals, other than the machine manufacturers, to have access to government-used voting machines...
[N]o election officials, nor observers from her office, were allowed to remain with the equipment for the duration of the contractors' work, and no livestream showed the review.