Arizona Election Audit Exposes GOP Rifts as 2022 Midterms Loom

Nine months after the 2020 election and as preparations for next year’s midterm elections get under way, Arizona Republicans are split over whether a review of November’s election result in the state’s most populous county will turn off, or reassure, voters. President Biden won Arizona over former President Donald Trump with a margin of just over 10,000 votes out of more than 3.3 million cast statewide. A recount of a sample of ballots in Maricopa County found no issues. Two firms accredited by the federal U.S. Election Assistance Commission, considered the gold standard for the industry, tested Maricopa’s voting machines and said they passed. As Mr. Trump continued to contest the results of the election and called on his supporters to do the same, Republicans in Arizona’s state Senate commissioned another review led by a Florida-based company called Cyber Ninjas Inc. Cyber Ninjas says it may complete the review this month…. Excerpts from (the Wall Street Journal)