Ken Bennett, Senate liaison for the Maricopa County election audit in Arizona, stated Friday that there were more than 33,000 ballots from November election in which voters did not select a president or cast votes that were detected only by the voting machines.

After serving as Arizona’s senator president from 2009 to 2015, Bennett was appointed Arizona’s secretary-of-state in 2015. He said that the hand count of all Maricopa County ballots was complete this week. This included reviewing the undervote votes.

According to the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, there were 8,475 undervotes within its jurisdiction.

Bennett stated that there were more than 33,000 undervotes.

“There might be, you know. a certain amount of people that didn’t want to vote [Democrat Joe] Biden, [Republican Donald] Trump, [Libertarian Jo] Jorgensen, or any other candidate. So they could, in fact be undervotes.”

“But, if someone circled or made a check next it, or did anything other than get pixels blackness inside the oval of almost one percent of Arizona’s 3.4 million voters, the machines didn’t record any vote for President.”

“If we find people who circled their ovals or put a checkmark next it, not all of them are likely to be for Trump.

“So will it affect the outcome?” It might, or it may not.”

“So that’s exactly how the actual election in Arizona looks.”

“You received 3.4 ballots but the machines read slightly less than that. Votes were not counted.”

“So, if you were the winner or loser in a race decided by two out 800 votes, one of the first things that you would want to do is ensure that every one of those one-percent ballots” was reviewed.

“It is a race decided by three tenths to one percent.”

“And so, you would want to ensure that the election department had done an excellent job in seeing if all votes were counted. This is especially important when one percent of the ballots for the presidential ballot were allegedly not counted by the machines.

It is worth looking at if you have a race that was essentially not essentially. Two out of 800 was the exact percentage of the margin of victory which was 10,000 to 3.34 million.”

“Whenever I share the shire story with others, everyone who has heard it says, “Oh, it makes it very clear why we are doing an audit.”

Bennett stated, “We have a race that was decided with two out of 800 votes.”

“We cannot say because we are currently going through the extremely meticulous process of double- and triple-checking each tally sheet that has been counted in the past two months.”

Bennett stated that “the auditors are aware that the scrutiny of their work will make scrutiny on the election seem like [a] cakewalk.”

“So I believe we have a few to many weeks of work left on the other aspects of this audit that the two of us have been working on, that the subcontractor is still looking at the machines and all the data that was downloaded from them and the hard drives.

“I believe Arizona will win either way.”

“If the election was conducted smoothly and in compliance with all state laws, then we are happy for Arizona. We win.”

“But, if we find weaknesses that need improvement before the next election 2022 or 2024, then those things can be fixed and we also win there.”