Cyber Ninjas, firm that conducted Arizona election ‘audit’, shuts down
by Sam Levine in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#5TS7F)
Company has failed to comply with court order to turn over public documents from review beset by shoddy working and infighting
Cyber Ninjas, the firm that was contracted by Arizona Republicans to carry out a widely-criticized review of 2.1m ballots cast in the presidential election, is shutting down amid a legal battle seeking to force the company to make documents from the review public.
A judge fined the company $50,000 a day on Thursday - 50 times the amount requested by plaintiffs - for failing to comply with a court order to turn over public records, in a lawsuit brought by the Phoenix-based Arizona Republic newspaper.
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