New Republican election 'audits' are off to a truly ridiculous start

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"By all appearances, he lacks 'faith in the results' because Pennsylvania voters had the audacity to support the Democratic ticket — just as they did in 2012. And 2008. And 2004. And 2000. And 1996. And 1992."

New Republican election 'audits' are off to a truly ridiculous start
Nearly a year after Trump's defeat, Republicans in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are launching unnecessary and utterly ridiculous election "investigations."
msnbc.com
3:43 PM · Sep 17, 2021

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-republican-election-audits-are-truly-ridiculous-start-n1279333

Arizona Republicans' utterly bonkers "audit" of the 2020 presidential election has become the stuff of legend — but not in a good way. As a bipartisan group of local officials in Maricopa County put it in May, the outlandish process is a "spectacle that is harming all of us," adding, "Our state has become a laughingstock."

But with so much of the GOP fully invested in the Big Lie, Republican officials elsewhere remain eager to repeat Arizona's mistakes nearly a year after Donald Trump's re-election defeat.

In Wisconsin, for example, GOP legislators recently agreed to spend up to $680,000 — in taxpayer money — on an entirely unnecessary investigation into ballots that have already been counted multiple times. Making matters worse, the Associated Press reported this week that the state's election clerks reacted "with a mixture of concern and confusion to the first inquiry made by a special investigator hired by Republicans to examine" the state's 2020 election.

As Rachel explained on Tuesday's show, the inquiry came in the form of a strange email from an unofficial account and an unknown sender, requesting the preservation of election records. Not surprisingly, several Wisconsin counties said they intended to ignore the mysterious correspondence and await official instructions.

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[leftieNanner]

1. I hope officials ignore the requests for documents

in Pennsylvania too. That one is seriously toxic and dangerous.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

3. Seeing as how they mentioned Wisconsin in this article

made me think of Sen. William Proxmire and his "Golden Fleece" awards.