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On Tuesday, the Arizona Senate released a set of records, previously held by former Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, related to the sham “audit” of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.
The files provide new details about the work of Cyber Ninjas and its subcontractors WakeTSI and CyFir, as well as that of prominent election-conspiracy promoters who were also involved. The records are available here.
Late last week, Logan’s attorneys notified American Oversight that they would be turning over the records to the Arizona Senate. Multiple court rulings had found that the documents held by Cyber Ninjas, which Logan had sought to withhold from release, were public records. Phoenix Newspapers Inc. the parent company of the Arizona Republic, also filed a lawsuit over similar public records requests; that lawsuit was consolidated with American Oversight’s in January.
The Senate had originally authorized $150,000 for the “audit,” but costs quickly ballooned to the millions, much of it later raised through private groups. The records released on Tuesday include a number of contract agreements from May and June 2021, revealing that senior leaders of the effort knew early on that the partisan review’s costs would far exceed its public funding. They also reveal new information about the work of election conspiracy theorists Jovan Hutton Pulitzer and Shiva Ayyadurai.
American Oversight’s review of the records revealed:
More information on our investigation into the Arizona “audit” is available here. All court filings related to the case against Cyber Ninjas and the Senate can be found here.
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