The comprehensive recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 election ballots is continuing despite a lawsuit by Democrats attempting to block it.

On Saturday the cameras at the recount site, Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, showed election workers scanning ballots individually in ultra-violet light.

The Arizona Democratic Party and the Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo filed the last-ditch lawsuit to stop the recount in which a judge ruled the state Senate could access 2.1 million ballots and the tabulation machines used to count them.

A judge ordered a temporary halt to the forensic review Friday to see if Democrats would be willing to post a $1 million bail to back an appeal. The Democrats did not, and the audit then continued.

Former President Donald Trump said in a statement released by his political action committee:

“The Republican Party is demanding that Governor Ducey of Arizona immediately provide largescale security for the brave American Patriots doing the Forensic Audit of the 2020 Presidential Election.

“Governor Ducey will be held fully responsible for the safety of those involved. State police or National Guard must be immediately sent out for protection. The Democrats do not want to have this information revealed, and they will do anything to stop it. Governor Ducey must finally act!”

The county handed over the ballots Thursday to Cyber Ninjas, the firm that is leading the audit and led by Doug Logan. Logan’s team is using the state fairgrounds, which the Senate rented after the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors refused to allow use of its facilities.

State Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, said the ballots are protected by bonded and certified 24-hour security forces, kept in locked cages and a public live stream is on 24 hours a day.