{"id":39027,"date":"2021-08-23T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39027"},"modified":"2021-08-23T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T00:46:10","slug":"arizona-elections-officials-launch-bipartisan-assault-on-gop-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39027","title":{"rendered":"Arizona elections officials launch bipartisan assault on GOP audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Two of Arizona\u2019s top election administrators have issued scathing indictments of a contractor who audited millions of ballots cast in the state\u2019s largest county.<\/p>\n<p>The two officials are seeking to undercut a final report from Cyber Ninjas, the firm hired by Arizona\u2019s Republican-controlled state Senate, that they say will be marred by deep flaws. Cyber Ninjas is expected to deliver its initial report Monday on the nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in last year&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R) in separate reports castigated the inspection itself as deeply flawed \u2014 so much so that Hobbs argued it did not even merit the term \u201caudit.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Arizona\u2019s top election administrators&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39028,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39027\/revisions\/39028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}