Maricopa County, Ariz. said Monday that it plans to replace voting equipment that was subpoenaed by the Republican-led state Senate for its review of the 2020 presidential election.
The machines will be removed from service and replaced over concerns that the process compromised the security of the equipment. Officials from the state’s largest county did not provide estimates of the cost but have said in the past that the machines cost millions of dollars.
“The voters of Maricopa County can rest assured, the County will never use equipment that could pose a risk to free and fair elections,” the county said in a statement. “As a result, the County will not use the subpoenaed equipment in any future elections.”
The GOP-controlled state Senate seized voting equipment, including nine tabulating machines used at a central counting facility and 385 precinct-based tabulators, with a legislative subpoena in late April.
The decision to replace all of the county’s voting machines came after Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, warned in a letter last month that she might decertify the machines if they were not removed from service over concerns that their security had been compromised during the review.
The audit, led by the Florida-based company Cyber Ninjas, included the subpoenaing of nearly 2.1 million ballots from Maricopa County. While a hand recount has been completed, audit organizers have said they will not release the results of the review until August.
The county’s Republican-led leadership claimed in a letter to the state Senate last month that the audit had turned the state into a “laughingstock.”
“Worse, this ‘audit’ is encouraging our citizens to distrust elections, which weakens our democratic republic,” they wrote.
“Your ‘audit,’ which you once said was intended to increase voters’ confidence in our electoral process, has devolved into a circus,” the officials added.
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No ! They will get another type that can be reprogramed to Cheat.
Funny the only laughing stocks are the morons running Maricopa county. Their letter sounds like it’s trying to get the AZ Senate to stop the audit. Screw that! A flashlight should be shined up their ass and any fraud should be prosecuted and rectified so it can’t ever happen again.
Sounds more like Maricopa county officials are more concerned that the machines scrutinized by the audit may have had the “corrupt code” used to cheat removed. AZ should just ban all computerized vote counting machines period. Currently Dominion machines has shown the most problems caused but the Dominion Co. could just change their name and those machines would still be corrupt. No computerized machines PERIOD.
BS…
The have a network card and Dominion workers hover over them during the elections…
…they illegally reset these machines 3 weeks before the 2020 elections in critical counties
I guess that if they are so concerned about security, they should go back to the most secure, pencil and paper, one day to vote and picture id. That should lessen the concerns.
Funny how the Dems have been fighting the audit tooth and nail with every dirty trick imaginable…all while crying “nothing to see, here everything is legit”. Seems like they would want that to be proven.
When you know that there is massive corruption and fraud, you don’t want ANYTHING that would reveal it
Yeah they want to reprogram them to cheat.