What exactly is the problem? It seems there are two other firms working with them - if I remember correctly. If one specializes in typical auditing functions and one in computing, that seems like a smart process. Pretty much anybody should be able to count ballots, but a mix of technology and accounting people make more sense. If the name seems offensive and flippant to you, I don't blame you, I feel the same, but neither of us knows the quality of their work or their exact scope in this audit. On the other part your side has been raving all along that states are responsible for elections, so I don't see the problem with the AZ senate setting up an auditing contract.
There are 2 major problems with the selection of "Cyber Ninjas" as an auditor of the 2020 Presidential Election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, and you should already know what they are. They have been described in specific details, and thoroughly discussed in this thread over the course of the last 3 months. Here they are again:
#1. Back in December, the Founder and CEO of "
Cyber Ninjas", Doug Logan, publicly announced his conclusive determination that the 2020 Presidential Election had been "
rigged", and therefore, the certified results were illegitimate. Doug Logan even stated his specific belief that fraudulent votes counted in Maricopa County had altered the true outcome in the state of Arizona. This conclusion of Logan's was obviously reached well before his own firm's audit had even started, or for that matter, before they had even been hired. That is unprofessional, and it points directly to an overt bias on the part of Logan. What makes it even worse, is that Republican members of the Republican-controlled State Legislature in Arizona re-tweeted Logan's claims at the time he made them. That makes their decision to hire Doug Logan's company later on, appear as though State Senate Republicans in Arizona were not only well aware of Doug Logan's bias ahead of his company's hiring, but Doug Logan's pro-Trump bias was the whole reason behind the hiring of his company in the first place. Someone with a pro-Trump bias was exactly who Republicans wanted conducting the audit in Maricopa County. Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature are not trying to get at the truth. They just want a company (
such as the "Cyber Ninjas") to give the pretense of having conducted a comprehensive audit, and then report what Doug Logan has already publicly stated himself, which is that the Presidential Election results in Maricopa County were a sham, and that Donald Trump was the true winner of the state of Arizona - this is where Logan's "
Cyber Ninjas" come into play.
#2. Doug Logan was a Trump Campaign donor. He donated money to both of Donald Trump's Presidential Election Campaigns in 2016 and 2020. Doug Logan also has ties to a 2020 Trump Campaign attorney named Sidney Powell. It was Sidney Powell's web site where Doug Logan posted his allegations that the 2020 Presidential Election had been "
rigged", and that Joe Biden had only won Arizona because of "
massive voter fraud" in Maricopa County. Doug Logan also alleged, on Sidney Powell's web site, that election machines outsourced from Dominion Voting Systems had changed votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. That is one of the allegations which Sidney Powell is currently being sued for by Dominion Voting Systems. Doug Logan's status as a Trump donor, along with his ties to Sidney Powell and to the Dominion Voting Systems' law suit against Powell, combine to reveal a clear conflict of interest evident with Logan if he is participating in any role performed by a company who is auditing the 2020 Presidential Election tabulations in Maricopa County, Arizona.
An auditor should be independent and objective. Doug Logan is neither.