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Fake Electors’ Continued Involvement in Anti-Democratic and Election Denial Efforts

Several of the individuals who signed their names to “alternate” electoral slates have been active in efforts to cast doubt on election integrity, including sham election reviews that have been investigated by American Oversight.
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News Roundup: ‘Election Integrity,’ NARA Records, and Court Wins

February 3, 2023
Debunked claims of widespread voter fraud are still holding strong.

American Oversight Condemns Arizona Legislature’s New Rules Allowing Lawmakers to Shield Communications from Public Disclosure

February 1, 2023
Had these rules existed in 2021, the public would not have learned the whole truth about the Arizona Senate’s partisan “audit” of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results.

News Roundup: Arizona Lawmakers’ Disdain for Accountability and Transparency

January 27, 2023
New rules adopted by the Arizona legislature exempt lawmakers from the state’s public records law — and the kind of scrutiny that allowed American Oversight to expose lawmakers’ post-election anti-democratic efforts.

American Oversight Obtains Additional Text Messages from Cyber Ninjas CEO About Arizona ‘Audit’

January 12, 2023
Documents recently released in response to American Oversight’s litigation provide new details about Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan’s contacts with prominent election deniers.

Fake Electors’ Continued Involvement in Anti-Democratic and Election Denial Efforts

December 21, 2022
Several of the individuals who signed their names to “alternate” electoral slates have been active in efforts to cast doubt on election integrity, including sham election reviews that have been investigated by American Oversight.

News Roundup: Election Denial Is Alive in Arizona

December 2, 2022
The refusal by officials in Cochise County in Arizona to certify their midterm results is a reminder of the toxic staying power of election denial.

Cyber Ninjas CEO’s Text Messages About Arizona ‘Audit’ Reveal Frequent Contacts with Election Deniers

December 1, 2022
Former CEO Doug Logan’s communications reveal contact with numerous election deniers about potential future audits as well as funding issues.
Doug Logan and a text message.

In the Documents: Emails Show Nationwide Network of Election Deniers Pushing for Election Audits

November 4, 2022
In the two years since the 2020 election, Trump-allied conspiracy theorists and voter-fraud alarmists across the country have led efforts to sow distrust in U.S. elections, pushing government officials to embrace false claims of widespread fraud, coordinating with other election deniers, and encouraging a parade of sham election audits and partisan investigations.

In the Documents: Cyber Ninjas’ Communications with Election Deniers

October 5, 2022
Records of communications between Cyber Ninjas employees and several conspiracy theorists provide yet more evidence of the influence that prominent election deniers exercised in the partisan “audit” of votes cast in Maricopa County, Arizona.