moldyoldy

Cyber Ninjas, the company that led a partisan review of 2020 ballots in Arizona, is closing down following a scathing report by election officials and the threat of $50,000 a day in fines.

"Cyber Ninjas is shutting down. All employees have been let go," Rod Thomson, the company's representative, said in a text message Thursday evening.

The Florida-based company, founded in 2013, has less than a dozen employees, according to its LinkedIn page.

A reporter for The Guardian earlier Thursday reported Cyber Ninjas' plans to shut down.


GOP-backed election review confirms Biden won Arizona
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah said he would impose a $50,000 fine against Cyber Ninjas every day until it hands over documents related to the so-called audit after the Arizona Republic newspaper filed a public records request, The Associated Press reported Thursday.

Jack Wilenchik, a lawyer for Cyber Ninjas, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


County election officials released a report Wednesday rebutting almost every claim in the ballot review. It concluded that nearly 80 claims made by Cyber Ninjas were misleading or false.

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State Senate Republicans announced the results of their conspiracy-laden audit of the 2020 presidential election results in September. It concluded that President Joe Biden had won 360 more votes than Maricopa County had awarded him in the official count.

"Truth is truth. Numbers are numbers," Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said at a hearing last year on the review of the audit.

State Senate Republicans hired Cyber Ninjas to conduct an election audit of ballots in Maricopa County, the state's most populous county, after Biden flipped the state to blue for the first time in decades — beating former President Donald Trump by more than 10,400 votes.


The ballot review grew out of Republican legislators' efforts to overturn Biden's victory, even as Trump's top cybersecurity official at the time said the election was “the most secure in American history." Then-Attorney General William Barr also said the Justice Department had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Regardless, Trump supporters will continue to deny the truth.

moldyoldy

I certainly can’t deny that.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Y'all need to remember this when the next election results in either Trump or another conservative being elected to the presidency.

Smedley_buzkill

One question, Lon... if there were no shenanigans, why did Maricopa County stonewall the legislature for months, if not to give themselves time to get rid of evidence? People seem to forget that Biden's actual margin of victory was 43,000 votes in five swing states that changed the Electoral College. Out of more than 159 million cast. The popular vote does not mean much; the Electoral votes do. Here in Georgia, the same Governor Kemp and his brown-nosing Sec/State who swore there was no fraud are now calling for audits. (Seems the guv is up for re-election.) He is pathetic. When he was in a tight race three years ago, he swore he would make GA a Constitutional Carry state like the 23 who have already done so. As soon as he was elected the promise got shelved. I got an email from his election team today saying he "promises" to make GA a constitutional carry state if he is reelected. Sounds familiar.
Anytime officials stonewall investigations it looks and sounds fishy. If there was nothing to hide, why not just come clean to begin with?

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

You guys are still claiming the Russians got Trump elected in 2016. Still calling people Russian assets. Still talking 'bout the Russian bots.

Weeeeelll, OK then.

moldyoldy

When the election was verified several times by auditors an expensive special audit was a waste of time and money. The places that did do that, only proved that trump lost by more votes.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

As they had already "come clean to begin with", the above answer by Moldy will suffice.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Y'all need to remember that, after every election, there are always gon'na be sore losers with sour grapes.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Y'all need to remember it first!

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I've kept it in mind after every election within my lifetime.

woodguru

We'll certainly remember it when they ramp up perfected versions of shutting down fair elections because they have replaced elections officials with people that support overturning elections with zero evidence in recounts.