#ARIZONA RECOUNT FINDINGS REGISTRATION#

Other hand counts have confirmed Maricopa County's election results. The audit did not offer evidence that widespread voter fraud affected that outcome. Cyber Ninjas' review affirmed the fact that Biden won Maricopa County in the 2020 election. Our rating: FalseД«ased on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that anВ audit 'conclusively shows'В voter fraud affected Arizona's election outcome. USA TODAY reached out to Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, for comment. 'The Senate president and the Cyber Ninjas dragged our state and country through months of partisan political theater, culminating in a report that reinforces what election experts have been saying all along вЂ“ that this exercise was a scam,' Katie Hobbs, Arizona's Democratic secretary of state, said in a Sept. In mid-July, the Associated Press reported that, of the more than 3 million ballots cast in Arizona, elections officials had found fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud. 'As we've said before, we stand behind the results we canvassed,' Jason Berry, a spokesperson for Maricopa County, said in an email.

Lawsuits challenging Arizona's election outcome, which Congress certified in January, were dismissed and rejected.ДЇact check: False claim that many California voters were told they already voted A forensic audit of voting machines found no malfeasance. Multiple hand counts confirmed the election results in Maricopa County. There's no evidence widespread voter fraud affected that outcome. 'At no point were illegitimate ballots duplicated or inserted into the duplication process,' the county says on its website. The county said it did not find any voters who had cast more than one ballot.ДЇinally, Trump said in his statement that there were '2,592 'more duplicate ballots than original ballots.'' But Maricopa County has said it's confident its duplication process was accurate, particularly because it was confirmed in a court caseВ on this issue.

#ARIZONA RECOUNT FINDINGS REGISTRATION#

Maricopa County also wrote that, in the case of in-person voters who had moved out of the county, it could not find any discrepancies in its voter registration system. 'Example: if you search for Maria Garcia born in 1980, youвЂ™ll get 7 active voters in Maricopa County and 12 statewide.

'There are more than 7 million people in Arizona and, yes, some of them share names & birth years,' the county wrote on Twitter. Trump also said in his statement that 'voters who voted in multiple counties totaled 10,342, and 2,382 ballots came from people who no longer lived in Maricopa County.' But the county said that's unlikely.ДЇact check: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell spreads false claim about Arizona election results

'For the November General Election Maricopa County had 20,933 one-time temporary address requests,' the county wrote on Twitter.В 'In addition, snowbirds and college students tend to have forwarding addresses when they are out of the county.' As examples, the county cited voters in the military and overseas, as well as those who had recently moved. Trump said the report found '23,344 mail-in ballots, despite the person no longer living at that address.' He called them 'phantom voters.'ДЇact check: No evidence 'lost votes' or 'ghost votes' affected Arizona's election outcomeД«ut Maricopa County said on Twitter that's not evidence of voter fraud in some cases, it's legal for someone to cast a mail-in ballot from another address. Let's go through a few of the figures Trump cited in his statement. 'The audit results clearly show the election in Arizona as counted should never have been certified,' she said.Д«ut the findings aren't evidence of fraud вЂ“ and Cyber Ninjas did not say they were. Liz Harrington, a Trump spokesperson, reiterated that claim in an email to USA TODAY. InВ his statement, Trump citedВ several numbers from a draft version of the Cyber Ninjas reportВ to claim that voter fraud affected Arizona's election outcome.

Arizona recount findings