Fourteen months after the 2020 presidential election, officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, confirmed that the election was carried out honestly and fairly, as they issued a lengthy rebuttal to a partisan ballot review conducted last year demanded and conducted by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
The 93-page report from the Maricopa County Elections Department is meant as the final, official word in response to the report published last September by Cyber Ninjas, a firm that was recruited by the Arizona Senate to inspect 2.1 million ballots and vote-counting equipment from 2020, when Joe Biden won the state’s 11 electoral votes en route to winning the presidency.
The county’s report states that all 76 claims in the Cyber Ninjas report were misleading, inaccurate or completely false.
“This is a technical report that proves what we have said all along – the Maricopa County November 2020 election was conducted fairly and accurately,” County Recorder Stephen Richer said in a press release.
Among the claims the county’s report refutes most aggressively is one made by another Arizona Senate contractor, a digital forensics firm called CyFIR, that election workers deleted data containing 2020 vote logs before the partisan ballot review began.
“The statement is baseless and insinuates malfeasance. There is no evidence to support this claim,” the report reads, adding that data logs from the November 2020 vote had been archived to make space on...
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