Although Fann’s “audit” is widely described as a “senate audit” there has never been a vote in the state senate on whether it should be conducted. The audit was ordered by Fann and the chairman of the state senate’s judiciary committee, both of whom seized voting machines and associated materials through the power of subpoena. They turned those materials over to a hand-picked outfit, the Cyber Ninjas, who were neither adequately accredited and experienced nor willing to have a transparent process. The Cyber Ninjas agreed to conduct the audit for only $150,000–a figure that was always entirely too low to sort through Maricopa County’s 2.1 million ballots. Why? Probably because the company’s leadership knew they could make up for it with private money from Trump supporters desperate for someone to make their wildest voter-fraud fantasies come true—and indeed, the firm reportedly raked in $5.7 million. And then the Cyber Ninjas, entirely on their own timeline, are supposedly someday returning their “findings” back to the GOP-controlled judiciary committee in the state senate.

The entire thing is a closed feedback loop of election doom that’s, in all honesty, too dumb to fail. The Cyber Ninjas could allege that magic fairy-dust particles grown in a George Soros-funded Chinese bamboo lab blown into voter machines by Antifa changed the ballots from Trump to Biden. It would be accepted as gospel by people who think that OTC horse dewormer is a fine substitute for the COVID vaccine and that D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone is a crisis actor. Stupidity is simply not a deterrent to conspiracy theorists. It’s their shared operating principle that gives them a reason to shitpost.

Facts and logic are simply not going to get in the way of this “audit” or any forthcoming reports. We’re talking about a movement that has lost more than sixty court cases challenging the election.