Maricopa County officials disputed almost every claim that the 2020 election report by Arizona Senate Republicans made.
The County Recorder in Maricopa County has stated that “The truth is the Maricopa County 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump,”
Elections officials said that 76 of the 77 claims made in the Cyber Ninjas report were either false or misleading. They did confirm one error that the Cyber Ninjas found. As a result of this, they have sent 37 more ballots to the Arizona attorney general for further investigation.
Bill Gates, the chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors hopes that Arizona lawmakers don’t put too much weight on the report on Cyber Ninjas when they’re thinking about changing election laws.
There were 23,344 mail-in votes that the Cyber Ninjas and its contractors said were from people who had moved.
Upon reviewing this it was found that, in part, they didn’t take into account people born in the same year having the same name. This was found by the county officials after conducting a review of the findings using additional data such as names, date of birth, social security numbers, ID’s signatures, and voting history. In some cases, they also looked at parents’ last names and voters’ occupations.
The rebuttal from the county said: ” The County reviewed voters from these seven data sets and found that the methodologies and claims were inaccurate.” In order to do their analysis, Cyber Ninjas used a commercial database from a third party. Cyber Ninjas may have come to the wrong conclusion because they used a commercial database and soft matching techniques to make their decisions.
Cyber Ninjas also hired election conspiracy theorist Shiva Ayyadurai to look over mail-in ballot envelopes. The report from the county goes into great detail about the methods used by Shiva Ayyadurai and how the claims made by Trump and his allies that thousands of incorrect ballots had been cast being was false and had been debunked.
