Arizona audit: Counting continues but focus is 1,000 miles north

Staff Reports | June 4, 2021

Here we give you a daily update and catch you up on the ongoing audit of the county's presidential and U.S. Senate races in the November general election.

Slide 1 of 171: Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona Senate at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix on June 3, 2021.

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Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona Senate at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix on June 3, 2021.

a group of people standing next to a fence: A box of Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are delivered to be examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona Senate on June 1, 2021, at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.© Mark Henle/The Republic A box of Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are delivered to be examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona Senate on June 1, 2021, at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

10:30 a.m.: Inside the coliseum

Florida-based technology firm Cyber Ninjas is overseeing a subcontractor conducting the hand recount and a ballot inspection process that may be inspecting ballots for watermarks or bamboo fibers, which election officials have dismissed as conspiracy theories. They also are looking for folds in the ballots and other aspects of gauging a ballot's authenticity, according to Ken Bennett, the Arizona Senate's audit liaison.

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