BowlBrother85
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Here is the potential problem:Ok this should be really fun. Explain to me how you can mail mail-in-ballots without folding them. Keep in mind return envelopes are always mailed along with the ballot. A lot of states also provide a security envelope which the ballot is required to be inside. I will patiently await your answer knowing you will never be able to logically explain this. You are digging yourself a hole now.
The firm known as "Cyber Ninjas" isn't being transparent with their "audit". They appear to be taking ballots and looking for folds in them with the assumption that ALL early ballots should have folds in them. If you voted early by mail in Arizona, your ballot came folded in an envelope. Those ballots were printed by Runbeck Election Services and folded by a machine. It is true that all mail-in ballots are early ballots, BUT NOT ALL EARLY BALLOTS ARE MAIL-IN BALLOTS. Maricopa Country residents were also invited to vote early, in person at voting centers across the county when they became available in October. Additionally, ballots sent to members of the military and overseas ballots would not be folded.
When their report is finished, Cyber Ninjas must account for these differences. They can't simply conclude that "X" amounts of ballots are fraudulent because they don't have folds in them.
Former Maricopa County Deputy Recorder Kathren Coleman expressed this concern about the Cyber Ninjas audit:
"It's certainly concerning as an election officer to see that they are using a method that will exclusively look for something that will influence a report in such a way that is not true to election administration or that actually points to any fraud whatsoever."