Arizona's Election Audit Is a Trainwreck
Of all the flaws in the perplexing audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona, the hypocrisy shines through most clearly.
As Donald Trump and his allies grasped at straws to cast doubt on the results of last years presidential race, they settled on a few common complaints. They said that the election process was tainted by procedures that had been hastily changed in the lead-up to voting, that it was run by partisan hacks, that outside observers were provided insufficient access to oversee the process, and that the election was corrupted by private money given by philanthropists to boards of elections to help them adapt to the pandemic.
Now, more than six months after the election, the circus in Arizona, ordered by the state Senate, has become the last stand of the denialists. The review has attracted the close attention of Trump himself, who has fired off repeated, blustery statements about the count from his Mar-a-Lago exile. But Arizona is committing all the same sins that Trumps supporters have been denouncing, using a brazenly partisan process run by apparently unqualified parties, with procedures kept secret and subject to change. Observers are being asked to sign nondisclosure agreements, reporters have been kicked out of the site, and the exercise is being largely funded by interested outside partieseven though the Arizona legislature recently passed a law that prevents local boards from accepting outside funding.
If this is what it takes to conduct the count, the cure is worse than the diseaseexcept that there is no disease, because theres no evidence of widespread fraud in Maricopa County, and this is no cure. The point of election audits is to make voters feel more secure about the state of elections, but this one is certain to leave people feeling less confident about the process.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arizona-s-election-audit-is-a-trainwreck/ar-BB1gtwwk
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(57,124 posts)Blue Owl
(50,448 posts)ShazamIam
(2,575 posts)How can there not be criminal charges for the mishandling of the ballots and who is to be charged, the Republicans in Arizona government who created this monster or the private contractor doing the mishandling and who authorized the movement of the ballots and who has been responsible for them?
Fullduplexxx
(7,866 posts)Trump one that's why the Dems shut it down
lanlady
(7,135 posts)They are violating Federal and state laws and regulations in plain view, yet no one stops them. The judge gives Cyber Ninjas wide berth to do as they like when the correct action should be to order the so-called "auditors" to hit the pause button pending legal review. The "auditors" disregard whatever weak safeguards the judge gets round to imposing, belatedly. These are unqualified hacks handling or, more likely, mishandling, the ballots of voters taking part in that most bedrock of democratic institutions.
I just don't get it. Why has this sham, this outrage, been allowed to continue so long?