Pima County Recorder shares some thoughts on Maricopa audit

TUCSON (KVOA) - Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cazares-Kelly believes the audit by the Cyber Ninjas up northbound was a discarded of clip and money. But, Cazares-Kelly believes the workout did much than that.

"It has done a batch of harm to elector assurance crossed the authorities and crossed the country," she said.

But, Arizona Senate President Karen Fann sees it differently. She thinks this latest audit exposed problems with Maricopa's elections procedures.

"Maricopa County is trying to archer everybody that they person perfectly nary problems and it was perfectly perfect," Fann said. "I deliberation that 1 we person recovered is that thing is cleanable and if we tin find ways to amended that's what we are going to do. That's wherefore we've turned everything implicit to our lawyer general, Mark Brnovich, asking him to unfastened up an investigation." 

Cazares-Kelly argues what went connected implicit the past 5 months was a partisan effort to undermine our antiauthoritarian process.

"To telephone it an audit is simply a disservice to the public, a disservice to voters due to the fact that that's not what this was," she said. "It has been done to sew the effect of distrust successful the public, successful the voting public."

Fann believes, going forward, voters should beryllium skeptical of region recorders, the officials who tally our elections.

"We cannot conscionable automatically presume whomever the recorders are pursuing the laws and pursuing the statutes," Fann said.

"It is highly disappointing," Cazares-Kelly said. "We each travel the law. We each travel the elections procedures manual. We person checks and balances successful place. We person transparency successful the system."