The audit will not change the results of the election in Arizona.
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs condemned the, the state’s largest county, by the Republican-controlled state Senate. Although the audit will not change the results of the presidential election, Hobbs said in a Friday interview with CBSN it is a “highly partisan effort” that will undermine faith in elections. “We already know this election was free from fraud,” Hobbs said, pointing out that the state had already conducted multiple audits of ballots and machines, and several lawsuits found no instances of fraud. “This is unprecedented, and it’s not sustainable to think this will be the future of how we handle elections.” President Joe Biden won Maricopa County, a longtime Republican stronghold, by 45,109 votes, and he won the state by 10,457 votes.
