Security News > 2021 > May > Experts or 'Grifters'? Little-Known Firm Runs Arizona Audit
In early March, a Boston-based vote-counting firm called Clear Ballot Group sent a bid to Arizona's state Senate to audit the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County.
Instead, the state Senate hired a small Florida-based cybersecurity firm known as Cyber Ninjas that had not placed a formal bid for the contract and had no experience with election audits.
Criticisms about the firm's lack of election experience are hollow, its advocates argue, because the Arizona audit is unprecedented.
"This is an audit like none that has ever been performed," said Patrick Byrne, the former chief executive officer of Overstock.com who has been raising money for the audit.
Cotton's own firm, CyFIR, which did not respond to a request for comment, is now a subcontractor on the Arizona audit.
He moved his firm from Indiana to Sarasota in 2014, according to the Cyber Ninjas website, which quotes Logan describing the firm as a "Christian company." Last year, when Cyber Ninjas received $98,000 in federal COVID relief money, it claimed five employees.