3,000 Cyber Ninja texts remain hidden from the public. What is Doug Logan keeping secret?

Kaely Monahan and Amanda Luberto, Arizona Republic
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Cyber Ninjas CEO and audit leader Doug Logan testifies at the Senate hearing on the progress of the election audit in Maricopa County at the Arizona Senate in Phoenix on July 15, 2021.
Cyber Ninjas CEO and audit leader Doug Logan testifies at the Senate hearing on the progress of the election audit in Maricopa County at the Arizona Senate in Phoenix on July 15, 2021.
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Through most of 2021, Arizona's dubious review of Maricopa County's 2020 ballots, all 2.1 million of them, was a national spectacle.

Long before that effort concluded that President Joe Biden won by slightly more votes than the certified results showed, it was obvious that Doug Logan and his Cyber Ninjas team were partisans with no experience conducting what Republicans billed as a forensic audit.

Over the nearly two years since then, litigation from The Arizona Republic and others has led to the public release of 39,000 messages involving Logan, the onetime CEO of the now-defunct Cyber Ninjas.

Yet despite the immense volume of now-public information, 3,000 documents from Logan have not been made public, in spite of a court order to release them. It's not clear why Logan continues to hold onto these documents, and The Republic is still trying to obtain them.

In this episode of The Gaggle, hosts Ron Hansen and Mary Jo Pitzl unpack what information Arizonans do have from Doug Logan's documents, what is still missing, and why it matters for voters moving forward. Republic reporter Ryan Randazzo examined documents along with Larry Moore, the founder of the Boston-based election technology company Clear Ballot Group.

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Presenters of the report on the election audit, Randy Pullen (left), the audit spokesman, and Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, enter the Arizona Senate chambers before the start of the presentation to state lawmakers at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Sept. 24, 2021.
Presenters of the report on the election audit, Randy Pullen (left), the audit spokesman, and Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, enter the Arizona Senate chambers before the start of the presentation to state lawmakers at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Sept. 24, 2021.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: The Gaggle looks at why Cyber Ninjas is hiding 3,000 messages