Last-Ditch Plot to Sabotage Biden's Election Goes Full QAnon

[Nevilledog]

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An ongoing "audit" of votes in Maricopa County is increasingly entangled with QAnon, including the ex-8kun admin rumored to be behind the Q posts:

Last-Ditch Plot to Sabotage Biden’s Election Goes Full QAnon
A so-called audit of the 2020 election in Arizona was always going to be crazy. This is something else.
thedailybeast.com
6:49 AM · Apr 27, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/last-ditch-plot-to-sabotage-bidens-presidential-election-goes-full-qanon

An ongoing “audit” of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Arizona, is taking its cues straight from a man intimately tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory.

President Joe Biden won Arizona—and Maricopa County—in the 2020 election, a victory that was upheld by multiple bipartisan reviews. But last week, a Republican-led coalition launched its own recount of Maricopa County’s votes, a process helmed by a conspiracy-tweeting tech CEO and funded by an unknown slate of donors.

The counting has just begun, but already the audit has become almost inextricable from the far-right internet. There, audit-watchers share tips and concerns about security offered by Ron Watkins, a man suspected of helping birth the QAnon craze.

The audit, it should be noted, is nonbinding. Arizona’s Republican governor, secretary of state, and state Supreme Court chief justice all previously certified Biden’s victory. Nevertheless, the recount has been embraced by a conspiratorial set seeking to cast doubt on the 2020 election, including former President Donald Trump himself.

Watkins is a former administrator of 8kun, the forum that hosted the QAnon conspiracy theory, which falsely accuses Trump’s foes of Satanic pedophilia and cannibalism. A new HBO documentary argues that Watkins is one of the authors behind the conspiracy theory. Watkins, who did not return a request for comment, denies that he is the anonymous “Q.”

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[gratuitous]

1. Not so much a last ditch effort

It's more like the sore loser spoiled kid standing out on the field demanding that everyone come back because his team lost.

[C_U_L8R]

2. I hope the DOJ is watching these clowns very carefully

and keeping track of every crime they commit.

[callous taoboy]

4. I was just about to say-

My hope is that, having been identified as a domestic terrorist source, the FBI is watching their every move. I also hope that we don't get too far into Biden's term before Q is sounded rejected by most.

[callous taoboy]

3. Both of my Q brothers are eating this up with a spoon, no doubt.

[louis-t]

5. Audit may be "non-binding" but it will

stir up the crazy for many years. Repugs will get lots of donations from this. I do not trust these people for one minute. Even if they don't ignore Democratic votes in their 'audit', they will surely claim that they found massive fraud.

[2naSalit]

6. The point is to generate conspiracy fodder...

And sow doubt about elections for those who weren't paying attention in school.

[Fullduplexxx]

8. And make trump feel better he can say he didn't lose which to him is a very big deal

[BlueIdaho]

7. Refusing to allow neutral observers

And revealing to the courts their methodology makes this all a partisan hoax. What’s left of the GOP has descended into QLunacy.

[MissMillie]

9. "multiple bipartisan reviews" vs. an "audit" by a QAnon quack

Gee... what could possibly go wrong?

The AZ GOP authorized this, and hired this nutjob. Will they hold themselves liable when this bogus audit lights the fuse the to unhinged right?

[in2herbs]

10. Why isn't Dominion getting involved with this challenge? After all it was their voting machines.

These Rs can't guarantee the voting privacy of voters that Dominion agreed to provide to the state so Dominion has some reason to litigate against the Rs. Dominion has sued individuals for libel, why not these RWNJ guys too?

[underpants]

11. Daily Beast does a little Arrested Development narrator thing

“It’s happening Patriots! The truth is coming out… TRUMP WON!” (Trump did not win.)