Cyber Ninjas CEO suggests that audit should revive door-knocking plan

Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, left, and Senate audit liaison Ken Bennett participate in an Arizona Senate audit listening to on July 15, 2021. (Arizona Capitol TV Screenshot)

PHOENIX – Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan stated Thursday he thinks the audit he’s main of final 12 months’s Phoenix-area election ought to embrace door-to-door canvassing, a plan that was shelved after the U.S. Division of Justice raised issues.

Throughout a livestreamed listening to led by Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, Logan stated canvassing may assist clarify doable anomalies discovered within the voter registration rolls.

Logan stated one of many points was that round 18,000 voters who participated within the election have been faraway from the rolls quickly after.

“They have been on the voter rolls, they confirmed as voted, after which they have been eliminated,” he stated. “There may very well be an excellent logical clarification for that, but it surely looks like a big quantity to me.”

He stated getting extra details about the requests made for elimination from the rolls in addition to “knocking on doorways and canvassing might help validate that data.”

Fann requested if there have been choices apart from door-knocking. Senate audit liaison Ken Bennett, who was on the panel with Logan, stated it may be executed by evaluating county voter information with knowledge maintained by the Arizona secretary of state.

Fann and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Warren Petersen, the one lawmakers concerned within the listening to, expressed a want to get Logan and his cohorts no matter they are saying they should produce an entire audit report.

However they didn’t particularly tackle door-knocking past Fann’s query after Logan talked about it.

In Could, after the Division of Justice warned that straight contacting voters may quantity to unlawful voter intimidation, the Senate put the door-canvassing plan on maintain however proposed a method for doing it if vital.

The audit started April 23 after the Senate gained a authorized battle with Maricopa County over entry to voting gear and roughly 2.1 million ballots from the November 2020 election. Logan stated operations on the Arizona State Fairgrounds, first at Veterans Memorial Coliseum and now on the Wesley Bolin Constructing, are virtually completed.

“At this stage in time we’ve got tallied the entire ballots, we’ve executed paper examination on the entire ballots — that knowledge remains to be be labored by means of,” Logan stated.

“The one factor we’ve got left is we’re working by means of among the final bits of aggregation to verify all these numbers are excellent, as a result of we completely perceive how a lot focus is on us proper now.”

The U.S. Home Oversight and Reform Committee despatched Logan a letter Wednesday requesting documentation about Cyber Ninjas’ position within the audit, the way it’s being funded, and any doable connections between his Florida-based firm and former President Donald Trump or his surrogates.

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