These are small businesses being tasked with a highly political highly visible task that takes election process knowledge, vast technical skills and a high level of PR acumen.
Which companies have knowledge of voting machines? None of the 4 boast of any focus on elections anywhere on their LinkedIn pages, content they own, or on their public web pages. Clearly, this is not a core competency but rather something they are dipping their toe in.
Wait, nobody has experience auditing (security or vote counting) elections? Are you sure about that?
I mentioned Accenture/Deloitte as examples of big firms that have extensive experience auditing as well as bring extensive teams in technology. After all, this is purported to be an
audit thus getting a team with audit experience should be a prerequisite. When I was with Accenture they had 350,000 consultants worldwide spanning near anything needed. They also carry the reputation (and risk of their own reputation) to carry weight of accuracy. You could throw several other consulting (KPMG, PWC, etc) companies into the mix that would have the scale to do the work the AZ State Republicans have asked of the Sasquatch hunters.
Not respond to a bid? Those consulting companies will complete any work you want for the right price. They aren't cheap but if you want accuracy and the reputation to stand behind their analysis they are worth it. It's why these companies make lots of money auditing any number of elections (e.g. Investor related), financial statements, and other items like lotteries. Their reputation drives their future business (e.g. Arthur Andersen was dissolved following the Enron scandal).
This is why everyone should rightly question the motives. Is accuracy the intention or rather is this discovery to attempt to validate a theory? Each of these small businesses could be gone tomorrow, they have no reputation at stake other than their reputation as a hired gun for the right-wing establishment could be burnished, although it doesn't appear to have been successful for that Texas firm which Powell paraded in their GA/MI lawsuits.
Based on local media, the owner of Cyber Ninjas, the company with 2-10 employees, has claimed his company is leading the counting. His company also intends to do "fiber analysis" of the ballots and will be visiting actual voters (sampling) to knock on their doors complete some level of confirmation. All are acceptable tasks for any forensic analysis and I'd have no problem if a qualified company carried out those tasks.
You're fooling yourself if you think this company is qualified to do
any of that. You can extend that to the other 3 companies too based on their public company profiles. To argue otherwise is simply ignoring all available facts.
I've posted the AZ Senate Republican tweets. I've supported my argument with these companies LinkedIn profiles. I've posted links to the Maricopa Election Board demonstrating they are 80% Republican and have been since at least 2019. All of that is backing up my argument far beyond what the media covers so this incessant claim of "parroting...the media" is 100% projection by you. As usual, you have yet to support
any of your claims with actual evidence yet in this thread you've stated you "have more knowledge on this subject".
Please demonstrate you are the chess player and not the pigeon in this meme.
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