-It is a zoo down there.
It is a three-ring circus.
It is the blind leading the blind, unfortunately.
Those that lose an election are the first ones to complain.
This has stepped tenfold.
You have a bunch of Trump loyalists.
Let's be honest.
Trump loyalists, conspiracy theorists,
that are down there trying to find something.
-It's been seven months since the presidential election,
and Arizona is recounting their votes again.
-Count the votes! -Arizona Senate Republicans
recently subpoenaed the two-point-one million ballots
cast in Maricopa County
and the tabulation machines used to count them.
-There's nothing wrong with verifying
all of those aspects of the race --
the signatures, the folds in the ballot.
This is all about how to make Arizona election process
and procedures even more perfect going forward.
-And we are learning the controversial Arizona
election audit is looking for bamboo-laced ballots.
-Ballots being scanned with UV lights.
-Anthony Kern, former Republican state senator,
he was pictured on January 6th on the steps of the US Capitol.
He has been an active Stop the Steal advocate.
-We kind of jokingly coined the word "fraudit."
These people came in and offered to conduct a free audit,
and they're in no way, like, qualified or certified
or know what a post-election audit
should look like or consist of.
This is a huge, big grifting scheme going on right now.
-In the 2020 presidential election,
Arizona voted for Joe Biden, the first time the state
went for a Democratic candidate since 1996.
-Count our votes! -But within days
of the election, allegations of fraud
and vote tampering began swirling around Maricopa County,
perpetuated by then-president Donald Trump and his supporters.
-This election was a fraud.
If you look at Arizona,
the biggest politicians in Arizona say,
"There was no way you lost Arizona."
-In January, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors
conducted an audit of equipment
used to tally the election after allegations of fraud
were waged by state Republicans.
The audit ultimately upheld the election results.
But now Republican lawmakers
contracted with Florida security firm
Cyber Ninjas to conduct yet another audit.
This is the first elections audit conducted by the company.
-I thought we needed to take a closer look
the night of the election, it was that close.
-The ballots are hand-counted and photos
are taken of both the front and back to evaluate the paper.
-And then that'll go into a pile where another person
is putting it under some microscopic cameras
to check for the depressions, where the ovals are filled in.
And then it goes back in the box that it came out of.
-It is untenable that this could be the new norm
in our elections.
It's always been accepted that we have election systems
in place to ensure security and fairness.
-We want Trump! -And we trust those systems,
and elections always have a winner and a loser.
The beauty of them is is that if you don't like
that outcome, come back in four years
and try again or two years or whatever it is.
-We got the audit!
-The audit will ultimately produce
a report that'll be delivered to the state senate.
-And if we find errors or fraud, what the state senate has said
is that they're gonna use that
to tighten up on the election laws
and procedures for the next election in Arizona.
-But many lawmakers in Arizona are worried that
these recommendations will push restrictive GOP-led voting laws
similar to those in Texas, Florida, and Georgia.
-They're using this audit as their justification
to suppress the vote.
They're using this audit
and these unfounded claims to be able to say,
"Hey, we need these types of election revisions
in order to secure our election."
-This audit that is happening here in Arizona,
I'm so grateful to the Lord for bringing me here.
-We need to step up and say,
"Hey, this is what happened in the 2020 election."
We need to tell the voter, the best thing we can do
is tell the voters the truth.
-Well, I actually hope that we have this type of a process
happen in every election.
I think we need a process to prove down to even one vote
that the election was counted correctly.
-At the end of the day,
I don't know what that report's gonna say.
All I know is that it's not gonna be a valid
or reliable reflection of the election.
There's people that are gonna continue to believe
that the election was stolen based
on whatever the outcome of this situation is.
-We have a winner -- number nine.
-Where does this end?
Where does this end?
When does the 2020 election be put to bed?