The most pivotal moment in Arizona’s high-profile election “audit” played out in near secrecy.
Cyber Ninjas, the technology firm hired by Senate Republicans to probe 2020 election results, had just completed a hand recount of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County. But company CEO Doug Logan was starting to panic ― because he had no way to tally up the results.
With a deadline looming to produce a report for the Senate, he desperately sought to find a system to read the tens of thousands of tally sheets volunteers had used to record actual votes for then-President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden.
Logan privately admitted in a series of text messages during the summer of 2021 that he could not make sense of the data, The Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY Network, found.
