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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Republicans in the Arizona state senate have contracted with a rightwing tech outfit with no experience in elections or voting systems to oversee a hand-count audit of 2.1 million hand-marked paper ballots cast in Maricopa County (Phoenix), Arizona's 2020 Presidential and Senate elections. Apparently AZ Republicans believe that only those two elections may have been 'stolen,' only after Democrats won those races for the first time in decades. Cyber Ninjas, with no inexperience in election oversight, has locked out the public and the media, in contravention of established election transparency practices. Its leader, Doug Logan, promoted false, ludicrous, evidence-free claims of fraud in the 2020 election, asserting that the election was stolen from Donald Trump - despite the majority-Republican county board of elections and the state's Republican governor certifying the Maricopa County results. We are always in favor of the public being able to oversee and check election results, but this is far from it - the Cyber Ninjas firm has asked a court to declare their forensic processes a trade secret, and has offered little information to the public and the media. Two longtime election integrity advocates, JOHN BRAKEY of AUDIT USA and RAY LUTZ of Citizens' Oversight Projects, have been among the few outsiders allowed in, and offer a unique, exclusive look inside the Maricopa County, AZ "audit/recount."\\xa0 They explain what they have seen so far and the secretive processes involved; their very serious concerns about the process itself, the lack of transparency and public reporting, and some nutty procedures; and positive elements that may come out of this exercise."