The AZ fraudit doesn't "confirm" anything and shouldn't be reported that way

[gulliver]

I noticed the CNN site has a headline that says "Trump-backed AZ audit confirms the obvious: Biden won". It should read "states the obvious, despite unfounded, whiny, sore loser, knowingly false Republican complaints about the election," not "confirms."

The definition of the word confirm (from Google) is "establish the truth or correctness of (something previously believed, suspected, or feared to be the case)." That's not what the fraudit did and not what should be reported. I can look out the window right now and "confirm" it's a sunny day. That doesn't make me a meteorologist.

The frauditors "confirmation" of the results of the competent election process in Arizona doesn't make the frauditors competent or their "results" not garbage. More importantly, it doesn't suggest future fraudits are somehow legitimized.

There never was a legitimate case for the fraudit. Like the election lawsuits, the fraudit was just another vehicle for delivering Republican misinformation warheads targeted at the United States. We shouldn't be allowing the fraud to "confirm anything" except that the Republican Party is now pitiably and thoroughly rotten to the core.

[ffr]

1. You're onto their deception! n/t

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Agree

Saying confirmed gives the Faudit undeserved credibility and the air that it was harmless. It wasn't harmless, it was part of an effort to weaken American Democracy and needs to be called out as such.

[sop]

3. What conspiracy theories will MAGATs concoct now to explain away the failure of the AZ fraudit?

[gab13by13]

4. Was it a failure?

Who has all of that voter data?

[sop]

6. Good question. Was this just a data mining scheme to overturn future elections?

Pennsylvania Republicans are now calling their fraudit a "forensic investigation." They want to subpoena records detailing who voted, including driver’s license and Social Security numbers, and whether people voted by mail or in-person.

[Effete Snob]

5. Thus far their report has not been released

The current hullabaloo is over a "leaked draft".

It would not surprise me at all for them to have provided that as bait in order to draw attention to their planned release of the "real" report later today.

If, as remains possible, it contains various allegations of fraud, everyone who ran with the "leaked draft" story is going to be pilloried for only reporting things with which they agree.

This post is entirely speculative, but it seems like everyone has jumped the gun here. If so, that provides an opportunity for further games on their part.

[UTUSN]

7. K& big R#5

[kentuck]

8. Absolutely right!

It doesn't matter if it shows Biden got more votes. They are not credible.