{"id":496123,"date":"2021-05-11T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496123"},"modified":"2021-05-11T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:05:16","slug":"fact-check-did-preliminary-results-of-the-audit-in-arizona-find-950000-fraudulent-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-preliminary-results-of-the-audit-in-arizona-find-950000-fraudulent-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Preliminary Results Of The Audit In Arizona Find 950,000 Fraudulent Votes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-preliminary-results-of-the-audit-in-arizona-find-950000-fraudulent-votes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496123&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229385951-scaled-e1620415238232.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10217529675732153&#038;set=a.2755505445202&#038;type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral Facebook post<\/a> claims preliminary results of the Maricopa County, Arizona, election audit found that there were 950,000 fraudulent votes and that former President Donald Trump is ahead by 250,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The results of the audit have not been released as of May 11. A state Senate liaison for the audit has refuted the claim.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate launched an audit of Maricopa County\u2019s nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in the 2020 election, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2021\/04\/26\/arizona-senate-ordered-audit-maricopa-county-election-questions-answered\/7334048002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona Republic<\/a> reported. The audit is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/arizona-audit-2020-election-recount-gop-maricopa-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being conducted<\/a> by several companies, including, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberninjas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cyber Ninjas<\/a>, a firm whose founder has previously shared unsubstantiated claims about the results of the November election, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/elections-election-recounts-phoenix-election-2020-business-396ea4662f8c213da010c0014ca97c6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An image claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10217529675732153&#038;set=a.2755505445202&#038;type=3&#038;theaterhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10217529675732153&#038;set=a.2755505445202&#038;type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a post<\/a> to show preliminary results of the audit, saying, \u201cTrump is ahead by 250,000 votes. At the moment, almost 950,000 ballots have been declared illegal. Almost all of them were intended for Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the audit is still ongoing, and the Arizona State Senate Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azleg.gov\/press-releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not released<\/a> any results pertaining to it so far. A search of the Twitter account associated with the Senate audit returned <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arizonaaudit?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no announcement<\/a> of preliminary results as of May 11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arizona-election-recount-b38a9205c306796f914d62bbad601587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Major<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/09\/us\/arizona-vote-count-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/arizona-audit-2020-election-recount-gop-maricopa-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlets<\/a> have covered the status of the audit. If the companies doing the audit had announced such findings, those media outlets almost certainly would have covered it, yet none have.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state and the state Senate\u2019s liaison to the recount, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/may\/07\/facebook-posts\/no-truth-claim-arizona-audit-found-trump-250000-vo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PolitiFact<\/a> \u201cthere\u2019s no preliminary results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no such finding,\u201d Bennett said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/may\/07\/facebook-posts\/no-truth-claim-arizona-audit-found-trump-250000-vo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PolitiFact<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s been no findings released to either of those effects.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/28\/fact-check-election-audit-arizona-quarter-million-illegal-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did An Election Audit In Arizona Uncover \u2018A Quarter Of A Million Illegal Votes\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact has previously debunked claims related to the audit, including allegations that <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/28\/fact-check-election-audit-arizona-quarter-million-illegal-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">250,000 fraudulent votes<\/a> had been found and that the election technology firm Dominion Voting Systems had a team of <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/29\/fact-check-70-lawyers-dominion-voting-systems-stop-election-audit-arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70 lawyers<\/a> try to stop the audit from taking place.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden won the state of Arizona by over 10,000 votes, receiving 1,672,143 votes, whereas former President Donald Trump received 1,661,686 votes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/results.arizona.vote\/#\/featured\/18\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">election results<\/a> from the Arizona Secretary of State. Previous audits conducted by the independent firms found that the Maricopa County ballots were counted correctly, the Arizona Republic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2021\/02\/23\/maricopa-countys-election-audits-show-2020-votes-counted-correctly\/4550644001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact sent a request for comment to the email <a href=\"https:\/\/azsos.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/5.5.21_letter_to_ken_bennett.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">associated<\/a> with the audit and will update this article if a response is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A viral Facebook post claims preliminary results of the Maricopa County, Arizona, election audit found that there were 950,000 fraudulent votes and that former President Donald Trump is ahead by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277790,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229385951-scaled-e1620415238232.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Preliminary Results Of The Audit In Arizona Find 950,000 Fraudulent Votes?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229385951-scaled-e1620415238232.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Preliminary Results Of The Audit In Arizona Find 950,000 Fraudulent Votes?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}