Arizona Elections Official Calls For Replacing Voting Machines Due To Potential Tampering During “Audit”

The New York Times reports:

In a letter to officials of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, the elections official, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, said it was unclear whether companies hired to conduct the review had sufficiently safeguarded the equipment from tampering during their review of votes.

Ms. Hobbs, a Democrat, recommended that the county replace its 385 voting machines and nine vote tabulators because “the lack of physical security and transparency means we cannot be certain who accessed the voting equipment and what might have been done to them.”

Read the full article. The GOP governor of Arizona last week assigned a state security detail to Hobbs due to the death threats raining down from Trump supporters.

Arizona’s top elections official on Thursday urged the state’s most populous county to replace hundreds of voting machines that have been examined as part of a Republican-backed review of the state’s November election. https://t.co/hKp0zrV3mp

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