The consulting firm hired by the Republican-led Senate in Arizona to conduct an audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County is also set to play a role in a lawsuit in Michigan.
A judge in the ever-expanding Michigan case, which is also focused on the 2020 election, said on Monday that the Florida-based Cyber Ninjas will be allowed to offer a rebuttal to a report that reaffirmed that human error, not Dominion Voting Systems machine software, led to early tabulation errors in Antrim County.
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The plaintiff’s “expert witness” list submitted to Antrim County Circuit Judge Kevin Elsenheimer for responding to an analysis by J. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, released by the Michigan Department of State, specifically names Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan, who has promoted allegations of voter fraud on social media.
In the face of critics who claim the Maricopa County audit is being conducted by “conspiracy theorists,” Logan has insisted that his personal views are irrelevant to the audit.
“I look forward to showing the media that this process is fully accountable and will yield results the public can have confidence in,” he said in a recent statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.
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The audit in Maricopa County includes a recount of the 2.1 million ballots cast, a forensic audit of the voting machines, and follow-up interviews with voters. The review is taking place in Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. It is the subject of litigation filed by Democrats, who argue it violates state election security laws, and Cyber Ninjas is asking to keep its methods secret.
Antrim County, which has about 23,000 residents, gained outsize attention after the November election when it was revealed that thousands of votes were initially and incorrectly tabulated in favor of President Joe Biden. The error was quickly corrected and has since been attributed to human error, not to inherent flaws in Dominion software.
Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy, a self-identified Trump voter, has taken responsibility for that tabulation mistake prior to the election.
Former President Donald Trump and his allies have cited both the Maricopa County audit and Antrim County lawsuits as lingering sources of hope to uncover what they claim will be widespread evidence of fraud in the 2020 election.
“The Democrats are desperate for the FRAUD to remain concealed because, when revealed, the Great States of Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, New Hampshire, and the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, would be forced to complete the work already started,” Trump said in a weekend statement about the Maricopa County review.
A hand-count audit in Antrim County found a deviation of just a dozen votes from the first tabulation, with 9,759 votes won by Trump and 5,959 going to Biden. Biden won the state of Michigan and its 16 Electoral College votes by roughly 150,000 ballots.
Elsenheimer is allowing the witnesses on the list provided by Matthew DePerno, the attorney for the plaintiff, William Bailey of Central Lake Township, 30 days to respond, according to MLive.com. He will also hear arguments, in a hearing scheduled for May 10, on whether to dismiss the lawsuit.
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Also on the list is Russell James Ramsland Jr., a cybersecurity analyst and former GOP congressional candidate, whose Dallas-based cybersecurity firm, Allied Security Operations Group, performed what it called a “forensic audit” of the Dominion machines on Dec. 6 that led to a report concluding they were “intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”
Elections officials, Dominion, and Halderman all disputed such claims. Dominion CEO John Poulos blasted the ASOG report in a hearing with Michigan lawmakers, testifying that the findings were “categorically false” and released by a “biased group.”
Dominion has filed multiple defamation lawsuits since the November election.
