Arizona Senate assures feds election recount is secure

PHOENIX — The Republican president of the Arizona Senate said in a letter Friday to the U.S. Justice Department that ballots being recounted from November's presidential election are secure and the department's worries about voter intimidation are unfounded.

The Justice Department letter said that federal law requires ballots from federal elections to remain in the control of election officials for 22 months, and that Fann's decision to hand them over to a contractor may violate that law. Voting rights groups last week asked the Justice Department to send monitors to Veterans Memorial Coliseum to watch over the recount.

In addition to the 2.1 million ballots, the county handed over its ballot tabulation equipment, computer servers and other elections-related equipment and a huge trove of information, including its voter database. None of the elections equipment is ever connected to the internet. Hobbs tweeted late Thursday that she had received several death threats because she is an outspoken critic of the Senate's unprecedented effort to audit the 2020 election, which she and Ducey both certified last year and declared as free and fair. She also complained that she was chased by a reporter for a right-wing website. Hobbs is the state’s top elections official.

FannKfann DOJintimidation Checks and balances are the foundation of our Republic but the DOJ is reaching too far and too hard In their attempts to stop this audit

Well that’s a bunch of bullshit!

NO, Arizona IS Participating In An Illegal Attempt To Discredit America’s Elections.

Nothing about this audit feels secure. What qualifications does this company have to do this type of audit? What qualifications do the ppl actually handling the ballots have? Who is paying for this audit? How many more audits before they are satisfied?

And I believe every word he says.

Sure Jan...feds will be auditing your bs

So they've taken control of the ballots. I suspect they'll declare the election in AZ for not Biden and no one will ever see those ballots again.

Secured 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏿👍🏿😂 my car unlocked with all windows down and keys in ignition is more secure

AZGOP is looking for bamboo as if 🐼s are running amuck. This is the farthest thing from being secure AZSenateGOP as you are using biased counters but it sure seems as though you support dismantling democracy.

Why? Are they still counting ballots! Get over it you lost!!

The entire recount is a BIG LIE ! All this Election security it’s all bull crap! The need for extra election security is all bull crap because this was a very secure election and all this is based on a lie that Donald Trump won ! So she’s full of it

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