Arizona election auditor anticipated attack by ‘antifa’

By Kaelan Deese

Published April 30, 2021 3:06pm ET

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Arizona election auditor anticipated attack by ‘antifa’ — A reporter watches the Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election being examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, who was hired by the Arizona State Senate at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Thursday, April 29, 2021. (Rob Schumacher/The Arizona Republic via AP, Pool)

The auditor hired to conduct a full forensic recount of Arizona’s Maricopa County election in 2020 anticipated a possible attack by “antifa” in documents a judge ordered to be unsealed.

Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, the company Arizona Senate Republicans hired to conduct a recount of 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 election, tried to keep its auditing procedures shielded from public view, according to the firm’s attorneys, who claimed the documents were under seal because they contained “trade secrets.”

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