'Stop the Steal' Movement Races Forward, Ignoring Arizona Humiliation

[Zorro]

As a Republican review of 2020 votes in Arizona sputtered to a close, Donald Trump and his allies signaled that their attack on the election, and their drive to reshape future elections, were far from over.

After all the scurrying, searching, sifting, speculating, hand-counting and bamboo-hunting had ended, Republicans’ post-mortem review of election results in Arizona’s largest county wound up only adding to President Biden’s margin of victory there.

But for those who have tried to undermine confidence in American elections and restrict voting, the actual findings of the Maricopa County review that were released on Friday did not appear to matter in the slightest. Former President Donald J. Trump and his loyalists redoubled their efforts to mount a full-scale relitigation of the 2020 election.

Any fleeting thought that the failure of the Arizona exercise to unearth some new trove of Trump votes or a smoking gun of election fraud might derail the so-called Stop the Steal movement dissipated abruptly. As draft copies of the report began to circulate late Thursday, Trump allies ignored the new tally, instead zeroing in on the report’s specious claims of malfeasance, inconsistencies and errors by election officials.

Significant parts of the right treated the completion of the Arizona review as a vindication — offering a fresh canard to justify an accelerated push for new voting limits and measures to give Republican state lawmakers greater control over elections. It also provided additional fuel for the older lie that is now central to Mr. Trump’s political identity: that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

“The leaked report conclusively shows there were enough fraudulent votes, mystery votes, and fake votes to change the outcome of the election 4 or 5 times over,” Mr. Trump said in a statement early Friday evening, one of seven he had issued about Arizona since late Thursday. “There is fraud and cheating in Arizona and it must be criminally investigated!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/arizona-election-audit-analysis.html

[pwb]

1. They are trying to keep the lie going.

Pathetic the pukes are.

[Stuart G]

4. That is all they know....to lie, and lie some more...

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Fanatic christofascists don't let reality get in the way of the revolution.

[lees1975]

3. I guess that one of the signs of dementia...

is the inability to compehend the actual words you are reading. So how stupid can Trump be, depending on the leaks that were coming out of this crooked audit aimed at bilking money from the stupid cattle who follow the orange buffoon around with tissue and toilet paper?

It is pretty remarkable that a group of Trumpies, who had never done this before and who couldn't keep track of ballots, run machines, login and access records and were generally as inept and incompetent at operating an audit as a kindergarten class would be, and who were underwritten by millions of dollars from Trumpies themselves, didn't just throw some paper around, click some buttons and just declare massive voter fraud. Apparently, billion dollar lawsuits against perjury of others claiming fraud sobered them up. Either that or, like just about everyone else involved with Trump, the corruption and greed ran so deep that Doug Logan knew he was going to collect a big chunk of change from the gullible, easily decieved morons who have bought into this and that's all it was ever about.

He ought to have to pay Maricopa County for all of the voting and counting machines that can no longer be used because they weren't careful with the access codes and settings.