Senate President Karen Fann said she hopes that a recently concluded investigation that found that Maricopa County’s ballot tabulation system has never been connected to the internet will help restore confidence in Arizona’s election system.
Maricopa County on Tuesday released a report with the findings of a three-person team of IT experts, led by former Republican Congressman John Shadegg, that debunked long-standing but evidence-free conspiracy theories that its ballot tabulation machines were connected to the internet during the 2020 general election. Advocates of the false claims that the election was rigged have alleged, without any proof, that the results of the presidential election were manipulated through the machines to make Donald Trump lose to Joe Biden. Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes.
“We’re pleased that we’ve been able to bring some closure to the voters who had questions and concerns about the security of these computers. We’re hoping this new information will restore some confidence back into our elections system,” Fann said in a statement provided to the Arizona Mirror on Thursday.
Fann, R-Prescott, commissioned the investigation into Maricopa County’s election system and routers as part of the so-called “audit” that she ordered into the 2020 election following a tidal wave of false claims that Trump was defeated through fraud.
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