{"id":972932,"date":"2021-11-05T15:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972932"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:29:17","slug":"fact-check-did-a-maricopa-county-audit-find-700000-more-votes-for-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-a-maricopa-county-audit-find-700000-more-votes-for-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did A Maricopa County Audit Find 700,000 More Votes For Donald Trump?"},"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-a-maricopa-county-audit-find-700000-more-votes-for-donald-trump%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=972932&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--><p>An image&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=251316853632602&amp;set=gm.4675693099158947&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid%3D251316853632602%26set%3Dgm.4675693099158947%26type%3D3%26theater&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635959345563000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEW_qRigqiLAm8DyZ6B4YgdJN8EKQ\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims an audit of Maricopa County, Arizona\u2019s 2020 election results found more than 700,000 additional votes for former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7313584\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7313584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot\/Facebook<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No audit of Maricopa County\u2019s 2020 election results uncovered an additional 700,000 votes for Trump. An audit recently led by the firm Cyber Ninjas reaffirmed the county\u2019s 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate contracted Cyber Ninjas, a firm with no previous election audit experience, to lead an audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-arizona-business-technology-election-recounts-c5948f1d2ecdff9e93d4aa27ba0c1315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>. The firm released its audit report on Sept. 24, the Arizona Republic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/09\/25\/arizona-ballot-audit-latest\/5863561001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/09\/28\/fact-check-17000-duplicate-votes-maricopa-county-audit-arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Were Over 17,000 Duplicate Votes Found In The Maricopa County Audit?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social media users have been once again sharing an image that claims the audit found an additional 700,000 votes for Trump. Text in the post goes on to claim Trump won the state with 2,737,838 votes compared to President Joe Biden\u2019s 1,286,264 votes and that the vote was \u201cstolen by Democratic Party operatives.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/results.arizona.vote\/#\/featured\/18\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Election results<\/a> from the Arizona state government show Biden actually winning the state with 1,672,143 votes compared to Trump\u2019s 1,661,686.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post misstates the findings of the Cyber Ninja audit. It did not uncover hundreds of thousands of missing votes that would flip the election in Trump\u2019s favor. Rather, the Cyber Ninjas report <a href=\"https:\/\/c692f527-da75-4c86-b5d1-8b3d5d4d5b43.filesusr.com\/ugd\/2f3470_d36cb5eaca56435d84171b4fe7ee6919.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reaffirmed<\/a> the results of Maricopa County\u2019s election, which saw Biden receiving 1,040,873 votes to Trump\u2019s 995,404. The hand recount of all 2.1 million ballots found Biden actually received 99 more votes than what the Maricopa County\u2019s official results showed, while Trump received 261 fewer votes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/24\/us\/arizona-election-review-trump-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cyber Ninjas <a href=\"https:\/\/c692f527-da75-4c86-b5d1-8b3d5d4d5b43.filesusr.com\/ugd\/2f3470_d36cb5eaca56435d84171b4fe7ee6919.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> did identify what it described as some ballots of concern, such as 23,334 mail-in ballots that were sent from prior addresses, but did not claim that these ballots were votes switched from Trump to Biden or vice versa. Maricopa County released a <a href=\"https:\/\/recorder.maricopa.gov\/justthefacts\/pdf\/Maricopa%20County%20Analysis%20of%20Senate%20Review%20%E2%80%93%20Cyber%20Ninja%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary analysis<\/a> of the audit refuting claims of problematic ballots and also posted a thread fact-checking claims arising from the report, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/1441470631787200514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>&nbsp;the 23,334 mail-in-ballot deemed a concern by Cyber Ninjas were legally cast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maricopa.gov\/5681\/Elections-Equipment-Audit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Previous audits<\/a>&nbsp;conducted by independent auditors authorized by Maricopa County found the county\u2019s ballots were counted correctly during the 2020 election, the&nbsp;<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\">Arizona Republic<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook claims an audit of Maricopa County, Arizona\u2019s 2020 election results found more than 700,000 additional votes for former President Donald Trump.Screenshot\/FacebookVerdict: False No audit of Maricopa &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972932","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}