It appears that the workings of the Senate is not common knowledge to many. I preface this by saying I am as frustrated as you regarding the audit. I asked for an audit on November 5th, was denied. I was joined by Patriots and we were demanding and chanting it by November 14th. It took weeks before we were able to actually get movement from leadership to actually do an audit. If I had my way this audit would have been done by the end of November but that is not how things played out.

With that in mind, in Arizona we have 30 districts. Each district has two Representatives and one Senator. I have been the Representative for District 16 for 8 years and this year I went over to the Senate. That makes me a first-year Senator. Not only am I not in leadership, I was not given a chairmanship of a committee either. So I am literally near the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to operations there. However, that gives me great latitude to say and do what I need to do without worrying about having something taken from me. Nevertheless, we have had very good leadership with Karen Fann as Senate President.

Out of the 30 Senators, we have a one-seat majority with 16 Republicans. Out of the entire Senate, we have one Senate President, a majority leader, and a majority whip. That is your inner core leadership team. From there on the outer circle of peripheral leadership basically is the committee chairs. The Judiciary Committee chair is Warren Peterson, and he used his committee to put in the subpoenas for the information so that we could do an audit. This places him at the table regarding the workings of the audit along with the leadership team. The rest of the Senators and chairmen play a supporting role when it comes to the audit, assuming they support the audit which some of them do not. As much as we would like to have a say in the audit report, reviewing the report, releasing the report, Etc, we do not have authority to tell the president what to do other than to place pressure. I communicate frequently with her and share with her what I learned from you here on this site. I have been steadfast in my effort to get to the bottom of what happened in 2020. Heck, for that matter, I asked for a review and audit of the 2018 election because I knew there were problems with that.

Nevertheless, it cannot be said of me that I am stalling, that I have not done what I am supposed to do, Etc. Leadership will tell you of the pressure I have placed on them and continue to do until we get answers.

I must admit that not being at the table and not knowing what has gone on behind the scenes causes me great concern as to the efficacy of the information we are going to receive. I have to trust, just like you, that this was done in a way that we can find recourse. I am hoping that today I will receive some more information. I suspect that I will not have the information any time sooner than you will. Keep the pressure up and I hope this helps illuminate the process and give you understanding as to where I sit along with the other senators.

Also, please do not put all of your hopes in the audit basket. You are going to have to get out and fight your local governments against these crazy overreaches. We are going to have to do a lot more than sit and wait for an audit result.

Here is another bill I will reintroduce after it was unacceptably killed this year by the committee chairwoman.

Hey guys, I need a favor. Would you be willing to listen to this 5 min podcast from this morning and comment for Jim Sharpe and help him understand, since he says he cannot make sense of what I am saying? Thanks, in advance.

https://twitter.com/AZKellyT/status/1438531281071992834?s=19

Update. The audit will be released next Friday on the 24th at 1 p.m. in the Senate chambers. The Senate Gallery will be open to the public. I'm not sure how you will go about reserving a seat for that but I do believe the information will be public. This information has been given to the judge in Maricopa County so I don't think it is false, I believe you can rely on this. Be ready to pour over the report.

Hanging in the balance is $676m in shared revenue from the state. If the county refuses to comply, it could lose 42% of its budget for the year.
https://twitter.com/jeremyduda/status/1438598548161892388?s=19

Back in 1991...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/02/07/7-arizona-lawmakers-charged-in-bribe-sting/243bc385-a86c-4a6a-acd5-bf2a69e499a6/

Stolen elections have consequences.

Unfortunately the consequences are felt by the American people. Might the consequences be placed on the wrongdoers? I want to see indictments.

Bad news, folks.

I am inquiring as to why this happened and we'll let you know as soon as I find out.

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1439031342155452416?s=19

Okay I have an update. It appears that this guy who tweeted about the situation (Data Guru) was not accurate. What this settlement is, is that the County Supervisors will give the Splunk logs and the routers over to a third party, a trusted source which is a former Congressman in Arizona, John Shadegg. Then cyber ninjas will be able to get everything that they want from him. So he is basically a caretaker of the data/ trusted 3rd party and we will still have access, so this is actually a win for us. We will have the information from both the routers and the splunk logs. I apologize for the blood pressure spike and let's see what we get out of this.

Additionally, the demand needs to be that anything that is done with these routers or Splunk logs needs to be done with our Auditors present and observing. Anything and everything they ask for it needs to be provided and it cannot be done somewhere else without observers seeing it done that we trust.

I have learned that John Shadegg has lobbied for Hickman's eggs in the past. Hickman's eggs is owned by the then Chair of the Maricopa County Supervisors, Clint Hickman. Supervisor Hickman has been a hostile player in regard to the audit. I feel that this is a direct conflict of interest.

This is yet another reason I am frustrated that I am not allowed to the table regarding the audit. As the former Chairwoman of Elections, I should have been. Yet I find out these things after they happen. Very frustrating.

So Clint Hickman accepts Facebook money to run the election. Hickman's own lobbyist is asked to be the special overseer of the routers & splunk logs, instead of complying with our subpoena. A direct conflict of interest exists. I say we scramble some eggs.