Post by the Scribe on Jul 10, 2021 22:17:36 GMT
Arizona judge presses for disclosure of donors funding Maricopa election audit
www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-judge-presses-disclosure-donors-171400699.html
Kaelan Deese
Fri, July 9, 2021, 10:14 AM
An Arizona judge on Wednesday questioned the claim that the public does not have the right to know who is funding the audit of the Maricopa County vote tally in the 2020 presidential election.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/arizona
The controversial audit, a Republican state Senate-led effort to determine the validity of former President Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the previously red state, has been criticized over its methods and undisclosed sources of funding.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-senate-president-maricopa-county-media-conspiracy-theories
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/judges-pauses-trump-2020-election-audit-arizona-maricopa-county
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/maricopa-county-2020-election-audit-expanding-liaison-no-deadline
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Kemp questioned Kory Langhofer, an attorney for Senate President Karen Fann who has resisted calls to release donor names. The judge noted Fann hired an outside firm, Cyber Ninjas, to conduct the audit, adding Fann has said the audit is an "important constitutional duty."
"Isn’t the public entitled to know who’s paying for this, besides the $150,000 the Senate has already appropriated?" the judge asked Langhofer at a hearing in Phoenix.
ARIZONA ATTORNEY GENERAL ASKED TO CONDUCT ELECTION INTERFERENCE INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP AND ALLIES
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-secretary-state-election-interference-investigation-trump
"That’s a great political argument," Langhofer said. "They should talk to the Legislature about it."
Langhofer said that donation records are not held by Fann or anyone within the Senate, adding that Cyber Ninjas maintains access to the list of unspecified donors who have contributed to the recount efforts. The attorney argued the arrangement puts the Senate outside of the scope of the state's public records disclosure law.
"The public has a right to know the information that's covered by the Public Records Act, but doesn't have a right to know all the information it deems important," Langhofer told the Washington Examiner on Friday, adding, "particularly if that information is not in the custody of the government."
A left-leaning watchdog group called American Oversight has been attempting to obtain donor names through a lawsuit filed on May 19.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/watchdog-sues-arizona-senate-records-maricopa-election-audit-fraud
Critics of the audit say the results from two previous election machine audits conducted for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors showed no irregularities in the county's 2020 election. The mostly Republican Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs have raised repeated concerns about the audit.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/maricopa-county-audit-dominion-shows-no-irregularities
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/maricopa-county-board-of-supervisors-calls-to-end-election-audit
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-hobbs-threatens-decertification
The Arizona Senate is spending $150,000 on the audit, and the rest is coming from donors. OANN anchor Christina Bobb is helping to raise funds through a nonprofit group, Voices and Votes. The total cost has not been made public.
voicesandvotes.org/donate/
The Cyber Ninjas team has concluded ballot recounts and inspections, and a comprehensive report of the review is expected to be released later this summer.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
www.washingtonexaminer.com/
The Washington Examiner contacted representatives for the Arizona Senate but did not immediately receive a response.
www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-judge-presses-disclosure-donors-171400699.html
Kaelan Deese
Fri, July 9, 2021, 10:14 AM
An Arizona judge on Wednesday questioned the claim that the public does not have the right to know who is funding the audit of the Maricopa County vote tally in the 2020 presidential election.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/arizona
The controversial audit, a Republican state Senate-led effort to determine the validity of former President Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the previously red state, has been criticized over its methods and undisclosed sources of funding.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-senate-president-maricopa-county-media-conspiracy-theories
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/judges-pauses-trump-2020-election-audit-arizona-maricopa-county
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/maricopa-county-2020-election-audit-expanding-liaison-no-deadline
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Kemp questioned Kory Langhofer, an attorney for Senate President Karen Fann who has resisted calls to release donor names. The judge noted Fann hired an outside firm, Cyber Ninjas, to conduct the audit, adding Fann has said the audit is an "important constitutional duty."
"Isn’t the public entitled to know who’s paying for this, besides the $150,000 the Senate has already appropriated?" the judge asked Langhofer at a hearing in Phoenix.
ARIZONA ATTORNEY GENERAL ASKED TO CONDUCT ELECTION INTERFERENCE INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP AND ALLIES
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-secretary-state-election-interference-investigation-trump
"That’s a great political argument," Langhofer said. "They should talk to the Legislature about it."
Langhofer said that donation records are not held by Fann or anyone within the Senate, adding that Cyber Ninjas maintains access to the list of unspecified donors who have contributed to the recount efforts. The attorney argued the arrangement puts the Senate outside of the scope of the state's public records disclosure law.
"The public has a right to know the information that's covered by the Public Records Act, but doesn't have a right to know all the information it deems important," Langhofer told the Washington Examiner on Friday, adding, "particularly if that information is not in the custody of the government."
A left-leaning watchdog group called American Oversight has been attempting to obtain donor names through a lawsuit filed on May 19.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/watchdog-sues-arizona-senate-records-maricopa-election-audit-fraud
Critics of the audit say the results from two previous election machine audits conducted for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors showed no irregularities in the county's 2020 election. The mostly Republican Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs have raised repeated concerns about the audit.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/maricopa-county-audit-dominion-shows-no-irregularities
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/maricopa-county-board-of-supervisors-calls-to-end-election-audit
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-hobbs-threatens-decertification
The Arizona Senate is spending $150,000 on the audit, and the rest is coming from donors. OANN anchor Christina Bobb is helping to raise funds through a nonprofit group, Voices and Votes. The total cost has not been made public.
voicesandvotes.org/donate/
The Cyber Ninjas team has concluded ballot recounts and inspections, and a comprehensive report of the review is expected to be released later this summer.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
www.washingtonexaminer.com/
The Washington Examiner contacted representatives for the Arizona Senate but did not immediately receive a response.