Stephen Richer

I'm just trying to get to know everyone's faces.

And meanwhile, we have January 6th that happens.

And then we have protesters outside of our facility.

We have some of my erstwhile allies saying that my office had participated in stealing the 2020 election.

And then by my second week, I had been subpoenaed from the Arizona Senate for all the, uh,

all of the materials relating to the 2020 election.

And that began the whole endeavor known as the Cyber Ninjas Forensic Audit.

And boy, we spent a whole year going over 2020 and it was a lot.

That's right.

I think that, well, I was very patient with it.

And a lot of the people who were coming to me with these allegations were people who I considered friends.

They were supporters.

And so they were people who I presumed to have good faith questions about election administration.

And I thought that if I dug in,

And if I researched them and if I got them answers and I did it in a way that was polite and if I did it in a way that was factual, that this would just be a scientific process and we would have questions and we would have answers and we would move on.

But it took me a while, but maybe a year into the process, I realized that was not going to be the case.

They did.

And more than that, they seemed adverse.

They seemed stubborn to...

getting any answers.