A private Republican hired company was supposed to investigate and recount alleged fraud in an Arizona constituency. The result is now available. And the next recounts have already been announced.
When parts of the US Republicans hired a company called Cyber Ninjas in the spring to check the election results in Arizona, hopes were high. The result will be “amazing”, predicted the newly elected US President Donald Trump. For months he and the right wing of the party had railed against alleged electoral fraud. A recount of two million votes in Maricopa County would expose the whole thing. Even more: it would trigger a cascade of recounts. Now the Cyber Ninjas present their evaluation – and it turns out sobering for the conservatives.
Donald Trump got 261 fewer votes
Although the detailed result will not be presented until Friday, Arizona time, there is already a preliminary version. After that, US President Joe Biden won the election in the state even more clearly than the official final result shows. According to the cyber ninja count, Trump got 261 fewer votes and Biden got 99 more. “We don’t even have to delve deeper into the Senate / Cyber Ninja evaluation to confirm what we already know,” said Chief Executive Officer Jack Sellers: “The candidate who was officially confirmed as the winner actually won.”
The Arizona vote was the closest race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the US presidential election last November. Surprisingly, the Democrat Biden got the majority there, even if only with a wafer-thin lead. Because the candidates separated only 10,500 votes, the votes were checked several times – with the same result over and over again. But the Republican-dominated Senate of the state pushed through with its majority another recount – against the will of its own party in the capital district of Maricopa County.
The fact that it was the Cyber Ninjas of all people who were supposed to carry out the reevaluation met with heavy criticism. Up until then, the company had little experience of counting votes, and immediately after the election, its boss had spread (unproven) allegations of falsification and fraud – in unison with Donald Trump and many of his supporters. The Democrats had therefore sued the test, but unsuccessfully. The recount would not have had any consequences for the outcome of the election, but anything but the confirmation of the official result would have further undermined the already shaken confidence in the US election process.
Trump demands exam in Texas
Donald Trump, who is unwaveringly suspicious of election fraud, had hoped that a correction of the Arizona election would spark an initial spark for further, nationwide recounts. Although he suffered another “setback” in Arizona, he has now asked the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, to review some of the election results – even though the ex-president had won the state. “Despite my great victory in Texas, I hear Texans are demanding a check,” Trump wrote in a letter to the governor.
According to NBC News, although he has not yet commented on the “request” of his fellow party member, the Texas Department of the Interior has already announced that it will recount votes in four circles: two in which the Republicans won and two in which the Democrats were victorious. The agency chief announced a “full, comprehensive and forensic review”. “It is not clear how the process will look exactly, a ‘forensic review’ is also not a clearly defined term among election experts,” writes the somewhat perplexed.
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