Maricopa County Judge Lets 2020 Election Audit Continue for Now

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A judge inย Arizonaย on April 27, 2021 allowed a 2020 electionย auditย in the stateโ€™s largest county to continue, at least until another hearing on April 28.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin said he wouldnโ€™t extend a temporary restraining order that would have halted the audit on April 23 if Arizona Democrats had posted a $1 million bond.

โ€œI think this was a very productive and useful hearing. I still have some thinking to do about the requested relief from the plaintiffs. I will do that between now and tomorrow morning,โ€ Martin said.

Democrats last week filed a last-minute lawsuit seeking to block the audit, hours before it was slated to start. They claimed contractors hired by the Arizona Senate, which ordered the election review, were not properly securing ballots and equipment.

The audit of more than 2 million ballots and dozens of electronic tabulators started on April 23, 2021.

Watch the Arizona Election Audit on AZAudit.org

Arizonaโ€™s Senate subpoenaed the election documents and machines in January and a judge the following month ruled the subpoenas were valid and must be obeyed.

Defendants, including the Senate, say that since the process is already underway, along with an alleged lack of standing and substantive claims, means the judge shouldnโ€™t stop the audit.

โ€œAn injunction of even a day may derail this audit,โ€ Alexander Kolodin, an attorney for Cyber Ninjas, one of four firms conducting the process, told the court.

Kory Langhofer, an attorney for the Senate, told Martin that the Senate โ€œhas always intended to follow the lawโ€ but that the case raised the question of what the law requires.

The Senate believes everything plaintiffs want either doesnโ€™t apply or is already being done, he said, adding: โ€œThere is no need for an injunction at all.โ€

BY ZACHARY STIEBER

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