The Arizona Senate held a special meeting Tuesday, during which auditors downplayed prior assertions in a controversial review of the 2020 election that someone might have deleted a main database from the Election Management System last month, now insisting they found the data.

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann joined fellow Republican Sen. Warren Petersen, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as Senate audit liaison Ken Bennett, Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan, and CyFir founder Ben Cotton for an update and to address the refusal by Maricopa County officials to attend, as declared in a letter on Monday that castigated the 2020 election audit.