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PHOENIX - The Republican who has served as president of the Arizona Senate for the past three years and oversaw an unprecedented review of 2020 election results in the state’s most populous county announced Monday she will not seek reelection in 2022. Sen. Karen Fann said in a statement that after nearly 30 years serving in local government and at the Legislature, she will retire. The move comes as the Republican-controlled Legislature prepares for a 2022 session where the results of the election "audit" will be a key issue. The review found President Joe Biden did win Arizona, but it...

The audience in the Senate gallery oohed and aahed as Shiva Ayyadurai drew its attention to a “verified and approved” stamp that appeared behind a triangle on the image of an early ballot envelope, unsubtly suggesting that it might have been pre-printed that way. “It’s almost as though it was imaged on there. I don’t want to say Photoshopped, but put on there. But it’s quite fascinating. I’m sure there’s some explanation for this,” Ayyadurai said. The remark elicited laughter from an audience largely composed of audit supporters who believed, without factual basis, that the 2020 election was rigged against...

Arizona state senator Kelly Townsend defended Gateway Pundit reporter Jordan Conradson after RINO state senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita had him removed from Trump’s rally and arrested. ..... Snip..... Conradson asked her why she killed Senator Kelly Townsend’s chain of custody and election integrity bills. A few minutes later Conradson was detained by event officials and escorted from the building for “harassing” Ugenti Rita. After walking away, he called AZ State Senator Kelly Townsend, who encouraged him to come back peacefully and fight this. On Sunday, Ugenti-Rita lashed out at Townsend and said she “encouraged” Jordan Conradson to “break the law.” “A...

The Arizona Audit officially completed the third paper recount that was being conducted by the Senate on Wednesday. The process was extremely thorough with multiple counts of the same ballots to eliminate any doubt about the numbers when the final results are released. Earlier this morning, pallets of votes were loaded into trucks and hauled back to the custody of Maricopa County. The paper ballots, notably, included very detailed chain of custody documentation, something the state failed to provide. ..... Snip..... Audit spokesman Randy Pullen said that they are on to the next phase of the process, putting together the...

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann spoke with Western Journal last week for an in-depth interview on the historic forensic audit of Maricopa County. Fann said Friday she is “burned out” and wants to retire. Fann told Western Journal that a third of her emails are incredibly vile hate. Apparently, her staff allows the abusive mail to get through. Fann explained how the hate is triggered and ramps up when the liberal media attacks her. Karen Fann and her family regularly receive death threats. Fann recently received a package containing white powder which forced changes to her security. Karen Fann: “It’s...

Ryan Randazzo @utilityreporter The liaison for the Arizona election audit gave some data to outside experts who want to check the Cyber Ninjas' work, and then he was locked out of the audit. ......Snip...... Senate liaison Ken Bennett blocked from entering Arizona election audit as tension with contractors... Tensions boil over at the Arizona audit of Maricopa County's 2020 election results as the Senate's representative is turned away from the building. azcentral.com 9:02 PM · Jul 23, 2021·

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, said the state Senate doesn’t have the ability to recall electors for the Nov. 3, 2020, election, after a fellow Republican lawmaker called for new elections. Fann told One America News Network (OANN), which has been covering the audit of Maricopa County, that the upper chamber has the ability to provide auditors with the materials they need—including through the use of subpoenas—but the certification of electors is a different matter. “The Senate body—we do not have the authority to do that. So, this is what we have said, and I want to make...

Karen Fann sets ’emergency meeting’ for Maricopa County Audit… Today FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Senate Hearing on election audit in Maricopa County#AZSenate #ElectionAudit @FannKfann @votewarren pic.twitter.com/eUdB13VvHW — AZSenateRepublicans (@AZSenateGOP) July 14, 2021 Arizona Senate President, Karen Fann has called for an emergency hearing on the Maricopa County election audit in Maricopa County. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, July 15 at 10 a.m. MST. Those attending will be Fann, Petersen, Senate liaison Ken Bennett, Doug Logan from Cyber Ninjas, and Ben Cotton of CyFIR. The meeting is open both to the public and the press. The hearing will stream live here....

Senator Karen Fann announced this weekend that the Arizona Senate will not be releasing numbers this week.

Karen Fann, the Republican president of the Arizona Senate and the chief instigator behind the ongoing so-called election audit, which has become a national spectacle, recently told a constituent that President Joe Biden won the election. At around 7:40 p.m. on May 21, a woman named "Andrea" fired off an email to Fann to call for an end to the controversial audit currently underway at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. Andrea described herself in the message, which was obtained by Phoenix New Times through a public records request, as a "5th generation Arizonan" and a resident of Legislative District 1...

Hey, if CNN's Chris Cuomo can advise his beleaguered brother Andrew on how to wriggle out of multiple scandals, why shouldn't a CNN reporter debate Republicans in the parking lot? And then be hailed as presidential timber? On Wednesday morning's New Day, after a long clip was aired of CNN reporter Kyung Lah grilling Republican Karen Fann, president of the Arizona state senate, regarding the Maricopa County 2020 presidential election recount, a thrilled John Berman enthused: "First of all, Kyung Lah for president, right? I’ll chair that committee right now. That was a terrific interview." Get the rest of the...

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, sent a letter to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Thursday warning that she may decertify the election machines used by the county in the 2020 election that were turned over to the organization conducting the Arizona State Senate audit of those election results. Hobbs wrote in her letter: I am writing to express my concerns about Maricopa County’s election equipment that was turned over to Senate President Karen Fann and Senator Warren Petersen and their agent, Cyber Ninjas, pursuant to the January 12, 2021 subpoena, including components of the certified Dominion...

This was just announced– It appears the Maricopa County Attorney will weaponize her office and use it for a possible investigation of cyber forensics of America’s Audit cyber team. Maricopa County officials have fought tooth-and-nail to prevent the Arizona Senate Audit from taking place. They have stalled the process at every turn. On Friday they threatened the audit team with legal action. What are they so scared of? Local news KTAR broke the story on Friday evening.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety was called to investigate a suspicious package sent to the office of Arizona Senate Leader Karen Fann. An aide to the senator opened a letter with an unidentified white powder inside on Wednesday when authorities were called. This took place as the Senate’s audit of the 2020 election continues. Vote counting and inspections will continue next week.

<p>The Republican who now leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former President Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run.</p>

The Justice Department is getting involved – choosing sides in the dispute between the Democrats and Republicans, once again. ... In a letter sent by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela Karlan to Republican Karen Fann, president of the Arizona State Senate, she went on to say that DOJ considered the fact that the election materials are now in the custody of a third party (Florida company Cyber Ninja). Due to this, the materials are "no longer under the ultimate control of state and local election officials and are not being adequately safeguarded by contractors at an insecure facility, and are...

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) rejected a request for an “independent analysis” of voting data in the state, concluding that it would simply amplify the voices of people who seek to “undermine our democratic process for political gain.” “It is patently unreasonable to suggest that, despite there being zero credible evidence of any impropriety or widespread irregularities, election officials nonetheless have a responsibility to prove a negative,” Hobbs wrote in response to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (R), who requested an “independent analysis” of voting data to restore confidence and credibility among residents. “To be clear, there is...

Arizona House Bill 2683 was on track to be a powerful bipartisan statement that antisemitism is not welcome in the Grand Canyon State. That is, until last week.  Before then, all seemed ready for my state to put antisemites on notice that any crimes committed would be considered hate crimes. The original bill in the Arizona House of Representatives had 56 out of 60 members join as cosponsors. The Senate version, SB1143, had 27 out of 30 senators as cosponsors with near universal approval. This support was unprecedented in the legislative history of America’s 48th state and came none too soon.  Antisemitism in...