The Republican-led Arizona audit being conducted by the Florida-based tech company Cyber Ninjas took an unexpected turn after voter data was transported to a mystery “lab” in Montana to be “forensically evaluated” by a third party.
At some point during the audit, CyFIR — a digital security firm subcontracted by Cyber Ninjas — was enlisted to examine ballots. But it wasn’t until Arizona Republic reporter Jen Fifield started digging through a state-run “SOS” website posting audit updates that she noticed “copies” of data were being “sent to a lab in Montana.”
Upon further research, the Arizona Republic traced the data’s whereabouts back to a Montana property whose owner was listed as CyFIR CEO Ben Cotton on public records.
Cotten is also the CEO of Cyber Technologies (CyTech), the parent company of CyFIR. Both companies are based out of Virginia, but they also share the same northwest Montana “Bigfork” address on documents.
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