They were never gonna find anything in AZ. They had something more in the works than what we'll see

[brewens]

tomorrow. I wonder what they came up with? In the end, they must have figured it wouldn't fly, and no one would risk prosecution. I just want to see how wacky it was.

We know they weren't there to do a legitimate recount and report the results.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. They were there to establish a precedent that partisan, private entities can interject themselves

into our vote-counting process ... to undermine the very idea that any election is actually 'official' until shitheel REPUBLICANS are permitted to hire partisan goons to 2nd guess our election officials, re-audit the ballots, re-inspect the machines, etc, etc.

[Kablooie]

2. It was to establish a precedent they can claim is honest.

So they can do it again next time in the next election and find that the Republican won.

[UCmeNdc]

3. Now they (the Republicans) know really how to manipulate the vote totals?

????????

[BadgerMom]

4. They did it to further shake the public's confidence in election results.

Per Chris Hayes, Trump wants Abbott to push for an “audit” of the 2020 results in Texas, a race Trump won. Hayes surmised yesterday that the point is to make all elections illegitimate in the public’s estimation. Trump and company are dangerous agents of chaos whose aim is to control the majority.

[malaise]

5. The Slobfather told us so

He said he was going to be investigating election fraud for two years.
Take it to the bank that Bannon was behind it

[modrepub]

7. To Undermine The Secret Ballot

figure out who's not voting for you then figure out a way to disenfranchise you. Either by finding something in your background to discredit you, figure out which precincts to starve of resources (increase voter wait times) or how to gerrymander the hell out of you to artificially dilute or concentrate your vote to cement the rule of the minority.

[Champp]

8. Data rape - the RepubliQon strategery?

In another GD thread, gab13by13 posits the idea that the Republicans were especially keen to get their greedy digital paws all over the juicy voter data that was given to them for their freaking fraudit. The Repubes have future gerrymandering and voter suppression in mind.

my response:

Anyone with as much as a pea for a brain knew that the Republican casino hustler had been kicked down the stairs as a super loser by the honorable citizens of these United States. The country had had it with the Republican lies, bungling, corruption, subservience to Russia, and generally foul arrogance.

d'oh.

The RepubliQon slickster operators knew that from the start. So I've got to agree with you gab, this was another evil, sinful, black-ops-in-plain-sight, anti-democracy Republican data rape.

[stopdiggin]

9. this was ALWAYS about casting doubt

and mucking up the water - and that is why similar efforts in other states (also without any chance a different result) are going to go forward. This is about Republicans controlling statehouses - and thus at the reins of the election process.