Cyber Ninjas, UV lights and far-right funding: inside the strange Arizona 2020 election ‘audit’

Election experts are watching the effort with alarm, saying officials are not using a reliable methodology - and fear it could be a model for Republicans to try elsewhere

One of the first things you see when you step outside Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the ageing arena in Phoenix, is the Crazy Times Carnival, a temporary spectacle set up in the parking lot. In the evenings, just as the sun is setting, lights from the ferris wheel, the jingle of the carousel and shrieks of joy fill the massive desert sky.