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.
