The design of the Public Hearing was to promote a forensic audit above reproach if probable cause justified such. A few weeks later the Arizona Senate called for a hearing specifically addressing the Maricopa County elections.
At the end of that hearing, the Senate issued subpoenas for the ballot images and machines that processed the ballots. Subsequent subpoenas called for the actual ballots as well.
During the long and contentious litigation between the Senate and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, two important points arose, one was the legitimacy and enforceability of the Senate subpoenas.
The second point, which seemed to be taken for granted in the legacy debate, was the need for a forensic audit with the process, people, and findings beyond reproach.
For operational security reasons, and to make certain that the resultant findings are above reproach, one Arizona politician reports that the Senate has worked very hard to construct a team that will be able to do their work and withstand the inevitable assaults upon the work product of the audit team.
It appears it is the intention of the Senate to have every mail-in ballot from Maricopa County examined. What the team will look at will be defined by the audit team, and the manner in which the ballots will be analyzed is up to them. But ballots will not be the only factor examined.
Questions about electronic access, reallocation, and reassignment persist. Such questions can only be put to rest with an examination of the software that operates the tabulation system to prove or refute such a movement of votes from one candidate to another as was done in Antrim County, Michigan.
OH, AND BY THE WAY:
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