| NEWS | Fire from p 13 The county analyzed the various data sets of “problematic” ballots put forward by Cyber Ninjas and found few issues. Of the supposed set of 5,295 ballots cast in two counties at once, for instance, the county found five cases of possible double voting, which have now been turned over to the Attorney General’s office for review. Overall, the county identified 37 cases of possible unlawful voting. Claim: Maricopa County intentionally ob- structed information during the course of the “audit.” Response: The county complied with every subpoena. Last week, the Board of Supervisors in- sisted once again that it has complied fully with the various subpoenas that the Senate has issued for reams of election data. The Cyber Ninjas’ report outlines the ways in which the audit, supposedly, was denied evidence that it requested, both Surge from p 14 down its Phoenix line expansion. That was until mid-November when the company laid off 81 workers in Chandler. Honeywell had signed a long-term lease in west Chan- dler for a 150,000-square-foot facility. It was not immediately clear how many people the company has in Arizona work- ing on making N95 masks now or when its lease might be up in Chandler. Amid the breakneck pace transmission and new cases of COVID-19 into the new Sign from p 11 signs salvaged from nearby buildings. “Most people don’t think about the art involved in old signage,” Reiner believed. “But with each sign, there are designers in- volved. There are neon experts who cre- ated the lighting, and there’s the backlit signs and the ones made from certain kinds of special plastic that can survive in the heat.” Signage is an important part of the local landscape, Reiner believed. Something that got burned into our memories. “We’ve lost a lot of really good ones around here,” she said. “Especially all those neon signs that were on Van Buren. There are still a few of them floating around, but they’re in bad shape.” She tried not to think about what would happen if the Sign Coalition didn’t exist. “Because most owners would just trash their sign during a tear-down. There’s an immediacy in getting it out of there. And 16 through deleted logs, noncompliance with subpoenas, and corrupted files. “That’s just dumbfounding to me,” said Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer. Maricopa County’s report provides an extensive response to these claims. Security logs that the Cyber Ninjas implied were overwritten nefariously were simply the re- sult of automated system processes. Images that were “corrupted” were easily opened by the county on its cloned hard drive. The main point of tension, of course, is the county’s routers, which Maricopa County did withhold for months. That was, as the county has reiterated, because their release could have serious security impli- cations — and because they are unrelated to elections, given that the election man- agement system has no internet access. “Our tabulation equipment has never had any routers connected to it,” Jarrett said. The Senate and the county reached a settlement agreement over the routers, which allowed a “special master” to have access to the routers and logs and answer the Senate’s questions. year, universities such as Arizona State University now are requiring higher qual- ity masks while indoors such as N95s in- stead of surgical or cloth masks. Fake masks proliferate on the internet for sale as people scramble to find higher quality masks for their children who are now back in school and for the workplace because the economy has forced workers back to face-to-face work. For those looking to cut through the fake mask noise, there is an N95 clearing- house with verified products. then there’s a healthy business in selling them to private collectors. All those neon aficionados out there, people who travel all over the country looking for neon anything to buy.” She sometimes felt like she was one among few who cared about old stuff. “I’ve done crazy things,” she admitted. “I once paid to have a mural removed, the one from the Washburn Piano store on Camel- back. It was done by the same artist who did all the murals at the Capitol building, and I just could not face having it de- stroyed. They tore down Washburn, you know, and put up a really crappy bank in its place.” It’s no mystery to Reiner why she cares about saving Arizona’s visual history. “I think it’s because I’ve always loved history. I just really like old things. They speak of an era, and they do it visually. When people say history is boring, I say, ‘No it’s not. It’s the teacher who’s boring. And a sign is never a boring teacher.” JAN 13TH– JAN 19TH, 2022 PHOENIX NEW TIMES | MUSIC | CAFE | FILM | CULTURE | NIGHT+DAY | FEATURE | NEWS | OPINION | FEEDBACK | CONTENTS | phoenixnewtimes.com
