Auditors in Arizona expect to finish the first phase of their audit, the hand recount of the nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in the 2020 presidential election, by Friday 6/11/21, or soon thereafter.
The audit teams will then shift resources to ballot evaluation work, including things “related to whether the ballot was authentic,” Bennett added to The Epoch Times.
In looking at pictures of the ballots, we should find folds in the ones that were mailed in. One of the microscopic cameras is looking for alignment marks and other things that are supposed to be aligned as far as the front and back of the ballot on an authentic ballot. The instruments can detect the depression made in the oval when a handwritten writing instrument is used to fill out that oval as opposed to an inkjet or a Xerox machine making those marks which would leave no indention, which obviously would be a fraudulent ballot.
The ballot evaluation will take most of the rest of the month, according to Bennett, who is the Arizona Senate’s liaison for the audit.
Auditors are also still reviewing data that was captured from election machines, including tabulators, Bennett told The Epoch Times. The Arizona Senate, meanwhile, is still considering whether to expand the audit to bring in a new firm that would examine ballot images and provide a third set of numbers to compare to the original tabulation and the dataset that the auditors come up with.
Senators are considering hiring a California-based nonprofit company to analyze ballot images to create a third set of numbers to compare with the tabulation from Dominion Voting Systems machines and the hand recount being done with the current audit.
The firm being considered is a nonprofit firm called Citizens’ Oversight.
Citizens’ Oversight uses what founder Ray Lutz describes as an audit engine, or a set of computers to tabulate the results from each ballot for all contests before comparing the numbers it generates with the official records. The review produces a discrepancy report.
“Basically, we do a total re-tabulation of the election,” Lutz told The Epoch Times.
It's not just Arizona that has questions about the 2020 Presidential election.
When Fulton County, Georgia, poll manager Suzi Voyles sorted through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden. One after another, the absentee votes contained perfectly filled-in ovals for Biden—except that each of the darkened bubbles featured an identical white void inside them in the shape of a tiny crescent, indicating they’d been marked with toner ink instead of a pen or pencil. That they were xerox copies. When people fill in the ovals, their marking goes outside the line of the oval in places. It doesn't go exactly all the way to the line of the oval, with no area outside the line, or not all the way to the line.
Adding to suspicions, she noticed that all of the ballots were printed on different stock paper than the others she handled as part of a statewide hand recount of the razor-thin Nov. 3 presidential election. And none was folded or creased, as would be the case in any mail-in ballots that had been folded and inserted into the envelopes that were mailed to the polling places. ANY mail-in ballot that did not have a fold, would be a fake mail-in ballot that had been produced by someone at the polling site which would not have had to place them in an envelope.
In short, the Biden votes looked like they’d been duplicated by a copying machine.
“All of them were strangely pristine,” said Voyles. Mail-in ballots have signs of having been handled by the people that filled them out. The edges of the paper slightly curled or bent, smudges on the paper, something other than pristine. Voyles said she’d never seen anything like it in her 20 years monitoring elections in Fulton County, which includes much of Atlanta.
She wasn’t alone. At least three other poll workers observed the same thing in stacks of absentee ballots for Biden processed by the county, and they have joined Voyles in swearing under penalty of perjury that they looked fake.
It should be noted that observers in other states, especially the swing states also turned in similar official complaints. They also officially swore under penalty of perjury, which would subject them to fines, or even jail time if they were lying, that they looked fake.
Now election watchdogs have used their affidavits to help convince a state judge to unseal all of the 147,000 mail-in ballots counted in Fulton and allow a closer inspection of the suspicious Biden ballots for evidence of counterfeiting. They argue that potentially tens of thousands may have been manufactured in a race that Biden won by just 12,000 votes thanks to a late surge of mail-in ballots counted after election monitors were shooed from State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
“We have what is almost surely major absentee-ballot fraud in Fulton County involving 10,000 to 20,000 probably false ballots,” said Garland Favorito, the lead petitioner in the case and a certified poll watcher who runs VoterGa.org, one of the leading advocates for election integrity in the state.
He said the suspect ballots remain in the custody of the election officials and inaccessible from public view.
“We have confirmed that there are five pallets of shrink-wrapped ballots in a county warehouse,” Favorito said in an interview with RealClearInvestigations.
He and other petitioners were ordered to meet at the warehouse on May 28 to settle the terms of the inspection of the absentee ballots. But the day before the scheduled meeting, the county filed a flurry of motions to dismiss the case, delaying the inspection. Since then the Democratic members have fought tooth and nail to prevent the Republican committee members from reviewing the ballots: there was no fraud, it would be a waste of time to review the ballots, and it would be an insult to the public to suggest that there was fraud involved in our Presidential election.
“We will be in court on June 21 to resolve these motions,” said Favorito, calling the motions to dismiss the case another “roadblock” the county has tried to throw in their way. He expects talks over the logistics of the inspection to resume after the Fourth of July holiday.