June 14, 2021: Cyber Ninjas is really just Doug Logan

 

6/14/21: The great Arizona presidential vote audit (one county, only) continues. Run, top-to-bottom by Trump fans, the recount, which was supposed to take two weeks has stretched to almost three months.

Doug's recount has lagged.

 

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“He’s just nuts now.” 

A friend of Doug Logan

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As far as we know, no bamboo ballots from China have been uncovered. (See: 5/18/21.) Workers are now diligently photographing each ballot. “‘It’s all aspects related to the authenticity of the ballots,’ former Arizona Sec. of State Ken Bennett said, “including folds in ballots, alignment marks, ensuring the ballot was marked by a hand-held pen or marker and not done by a printer.” 

For some reason, Arizona data was sent to a secret “lab” in Montana, although Bennett admits he doesn’t know where it might be. CNN does manage to track the company (two companies actually) responsible for doing the work, and visits the site not far from Big Fork, Montana. It appears to be a cabin in the woods; a “No Trespassing” sign means the reporter can’t ask questions. They do note that the property is owned by the same man who runs both companies doing the audit. CNN does a little more leg work, photographing the 155-acre site from the air. A call is put to Ben Cotton, the man running the entire show. He does not respond. 

(Kind of a Uni-Bomber vibe.)

 

Even better, the company running the recount, Cyber Ninjas, has an interesting story. Founded in 2014, it appears it may have only one actual employee. That would be owner and operator and the man you really have to call (not joking) to talk to someone with the company, Doug Logan.  

When CNN tries to contact the company for a few questions, this is the result: 

On recent calls to the company’s automated answer line, pressing “3” for sales led to the answering message for Logan. So did pressing “4” for human resources. And pressing “5” for purchasing. And “6” for the general mailbox. Go to the address for Cyber Ninjas’ Legal Department, listed on its audit contract with the Arizona Senate, and you’ll wind up at a rented mailbox in a UPS Store in Sarasota, Florida. The company’s business address registered with Florida’s Secretary of State, also in Sarasota, was sold last December, and now sits empty.

 

(To be fair, CNN also notes that in filing for a COVID-19 business loan, Cyber Ninjas said it had five employees.)

 

As soon as a Trump fan sees the letters “CNN” in this story, you know their eyes are going to roll back in their heads like Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist. But a Republican elections analyst named Benny White, who voted for Trump in November, says he’s “aghast” at the slipshod, methods being used in this gimmick recount. (For a list of other Republicans, including the governor of Arizona, who have called the audit a stunt, or worse, see: 5/22/21.) 

One guy who is thrilled to see how the recount will come out is Mike Lindell, of MyPillow fame. He insists that Trump will rise on the third day…no, check that…will be back in the White House “by this fall, for sure.” 

As for Cyber Ninjas running a fair recount, you get the feeling the result is already baked in the pie. Consider what Logan himself posted on social media before the count began: “I’m tired of hearing people say there was no fraud. It happened, it’s real, and people better get wise fast.” 

“It’s hard to say anything bad about the guy,” a friend of Mr. Logan for fifteen years says. “He’s a lovely person. He’s just nuts now.”