AZ Audit update: 80% counted. Results coming... and they are looking at signatures!

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Ken Bennett: Well I don’t have a precise count but I think we’re going to probably be about 80% completed by the end of the day, and I’m hearing that we’ll be all the way through the hand count this week. Now there’s also the paper evaluation that is running well behind the hand count of the votes on the ballots but anyone who’s been watching the floor can see that we’ve reduced the number of counting tables and increased significantly the number of paper valuation tables that are doing the images of the ballot and things like that. So we’re shifting resources to the area that we’re a little bit behind in which is the paper evaluation.

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Bennett: Well that’s going to be several weeks thereafter. In addition to the hand count which might be done this week, the paper evaluation is going to probably take all of June and we have the facility through the end of June. So, we’re going to have to do a lot of work to catch up on the paper evaluation but both of those things need to be completed and then there will be a few weeks of putting the report together. We still also have the opportunity, and I think it’s imperative that we take the opportunity to verify at least thousands of the envelope signatures to make sure that there weren’t blank signatures allowed to go through the mail in process because that signature of the voter on the envelope is the voter’s affidavit that their ballot is inside. We’ve heard rumors that there may have been thousands of envelopes allowed to go through and opened and ballots counted without any signature whatsoever on the envelope. If that happened that’s a huge no-no and so there are other very important things besides just the hand count and the paper evaluation that yet or yet to be done.

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Bennett: Yes.

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Conradson: Do you have an update on the routers and passwords?

Bennett: No, the county continues to refuse to provide the second passwords and provide access as the subpoena required, and as they initially said that they would allow access to the routers to verify whether there’s any signature IP address or signature or evidence of things being hooked up to the Internet they had the two companies came in and said that they looked at the equipment and couldn’t find that evidence but to me, that’s the fox guarding the henhouse because those are the companies that already certified the equipment and is not supposed to be able to do that in the 1st place so I didn’t expect much from their auditors (which they weren’t) but I didn’t expect any much from their valuation so we remain disappointed and committed to trying to get access to the routers and the second passwords to see what the setup was on those 385 machines.

Conradson: What is the next step in obtaining that information?

Bennett: Eventually, you get to a point where the Senate would have to hold them in contempt and we know that there’s at least one of the 16 senators that weren’t willing to hold them in contempt for some other things. Would they be willing to vote in this situation? Hard to say.

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