Maricopa County 2020 Election Audit Report Was Presented Friday

PHOENIX, AZ — The full report from the audit of Maricopa County's 2020 general election is set to be presented to the state Senate Friday afternoon, culminating a monthslong effort born out of former President Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 Election was somehow stolen from him.

The presentation is set for 1 p.m. on the Senate floor.

Watch the livestream of the presentation here.

As draft reports on the audit that was ordered by Senate Republicans circulated Thursday, it looked likely that the audit would confirm official election results that President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, won Maricopa County. Biden won Maricopa County by 45,109 votes and Arizona by 10,457 votes.

But the draft reports show that the hand recount ordered by Sen. President Karen Fann (R-Prescott) actually turned up fewer votes for Trump and more for Biden than the official Maricopa County canvass, Arizona Mirror reported.

Jack Sellers, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement Thursday that the audit draft reports confirmed what he already knew.

"This means the tabulation equipment counted the ballots as they were designed to do and the results reflect the will of the voters," Sellers said in the statement. "That should be the end of the story. Everything else is just noise."

Maricopa County refused to participate in the audit, conducted by Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based company that has no background in conducting or reviewing elections.

Sellers said that is exactly the reason the county did not cooperate with the audit team.

“How could we cooperate with an inquiry that was led by people who have no idea how to run any election, let alone one in the second largest voting district in the United States?" Sellers said in the statement.

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, the Trump campaign filed lawsuits in courts across the country, all of which found no evidence of fraud. While the Arizona audit is coming to an end, there are efforts to launch similar audits in swing states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.