Robert Emmett Murphy, Jr.

  Part twenty-one.       November 15 th marked the twenty-third day since the official end of the ignominious Arizona Audit, and also end of the first in-depth audit of the Audit. The results of the second audit weren’t pretty.   Earlier this year, retired Auditors Benny White, Larry Moore and Tim Halvorsen founded The Audit Guys to take on take on Public Interest Investigations wherein their professional experience could clarify, or resolve, controversies like that which had occupied Arizona for the last nine months. this. White had worked for decades as Data Analyst for the Republican Party, Larry Moore was the co-founder of the Boston-based Clear Ballot Group, and Tim Halvorsen used to be Clear Ballot's Chief Technology Officer. The group was a reaction to the Trump-inspired election hysteria, and their first Audit, of the manner that the 2020 Election was conducted in Pima County uncovered no irregularities (that must have annoyed White...

  Part twenty.       September 23 rd through September 25 th , when the Arizona Audit results finally came out.   The results were leaked to a newspaper the day before they were officially presented to the State Senate, and there were minor differences between the leaked and absolute final version, but the most essential points were the same. Cyber Ninjas afformed that the recount tallies almost exactly the same as the November count, only 360 votes off (out of 2.1 million) and those extra votes went to Biden, not Trump. Cyber Ninjas had known this for almost two months, but had suppressed those findings until their much maligned “forensic” part of the Audit was completed.   As for the forensic part, the report concluded, “The paper ballots are the best evidence of voter intent and there is no reliable evidence that the paper ballots were altered to any material degree.”   Senate President Fann presented this to her Chamber in a Se...