Correction: your eyes saw mail-in ballots being added to the total. Your brain could not process this information correctly so it drew a conclusion that is completely wrong but helped you in not having to accept your hero lost the election.
Arizona GOP leader blasted for refusing to take responsibility for controversial audit https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-gop-audit-karen-finn/
Arizona's sham election audit leads to real threats, exposing a cowardly governor Opinion: Ducey should have long ago condemned the lunatic exercise that's been going on at the state fairgrounds and the Republicans behind it. But that would take guts. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opi...exposes-threats-cowardly-governor/5014127001/ Last week Gov. Doug Ducey ordered Arizona Department of Public Safety protection for Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and her family after she received death threats sparked by the sham audit of election ballots orchestrated by state Senate Republicans. Hobbs isn’t the first public official to receive such threats. On Friday, C.J. Karamargin, a spokesperson for Ducey's office, said, “We take threats of violence very seriously and they are unacceptable.” Actually, no, the governor does not take them seriously. And, yes, he does find them acceptable. Otherwise, Ducey would have long ago condemned the lunatic exercise that’s been going on at the state fairgrounds and the Republicans behind it. But that would take conviction. It would take putting state and country over party. It would take guts. Dangerous incompetents are in charge It’s not just that there are dozens of reasons why the audit is sleazy partisan exercise with no redeeming value. It’s that there is not a single good reason for doing it in the first place. Only bad reasons. For instance, to solicit donations. And to stir up the already stirred up lunatic fringe. (Except it’s becoming clear that Republican lawmakers are the lunatic fringe.) The county recorder’s office, run by a Republican, already did a hand count of ballots that showed 100% accuracy. All major political parties were on hand to check. The office also ordered an independent audit of voting machines. Again, no problems. Still, Senate Republicans went forward. They hired a company, Cyber Ninjas, with zero experience in election audits. The company’s founder is a conspiracy-believing crank who posted unproven allegations about election fraud on Twitter. Then they tried to keep the press and public out of the counting process. They’ve allowed Trump partisans and at least one insurrection-attending former lawmaker to finger our ballots. Your personal information is at risk Ducey signed a bill prohibiting outside money in our election process, but he said nothing about the private money (including a big chuck from yet another conspiracy kook) that is funding the audit. Now the Senate kooks are asking for routers, or digital copies of routers, which Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone called “mind-numbingly reckless and irresponsible,” something Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel said would not only create a security risk for the Sheriff’s Office law enforcement data, but also “puts sensitive, confidential data belonging to Maricopa County's citizens – including social security numbers and protected health information – at risk as well.” The Senate’s security goons have gone on screwball searches for secret watermarks and traces of bamboo in ballots. They’ve exposed the most personal and precious information about Maricopa County voters to who knows what type of security breaches. And the entire process has led to threats against an elected official trying only to do the job she is sworn to do. Why hasn't Ducey condemned this? And Ducey has done nothing to stop it. Given all that, there is zero reason to believe a Ducey spokesperson who says, “We take threats of violence very seriously and they are unacceptable.” If he took them seriously he would condemn to process that has initiated them. He would have tried to stop it. He would still be trying to stop it. So, no, the governor does not take the threats seriously. And, yes, he does find them acceptable.
Now these Arizona "election audit" clowns want to declare the election of 19 state officials as illegal based on their claims that the state's 2018 and 2020 elections were illegitimate. Arizona Dead Enders Demand Court Hand State Government Over To Them https://abovethelaw.com/2021/05/arizona-dead-enders-demand-court-hand-state-government-over-to-them/ On Friday, a group of 19 Arizonans filed a quo warranto petition asking the Arizona Supreme Court to declare 19 state elected officials to be “inadvertent usurpers” illegally occupying their offices. According to these brave patriots, the state’s 2018 and 2020 elections were illegitimate and illegal due to … uh, something. Invalid processes, non-contracted labs and continued mismanagement and records tampering are very serious when it comes to our national security apparatus and Arizona citizens rights. An unelected commission and several [voting system test lab] contract vendors did not follow the set forth rules as to the most basic conditions for being allowed to oversee and inspect the systems and devices that protect our most precious voice. Compliance to standards set by law did not happen and contractual fraud occurred on a broad scale. These missteps invalidate the very processes set in place by law and render outcomes null. Look, it’s complicated. They’ll lay out all the evidence in the appendix to the complaint — whenever they get around to filing it. The point is, the Arizona elections are hopelessly corrupt, and so the court should boot out the governor, secretary of state, treasurer, a couple sheriffs and mayors, the superintendent of public instruction, and several other municipal and state officials. But no one else! And certainly not the Arizona Supreme Court judges who were themselves “inadvertently” retained in office on those same defective ballots. “The legal foundations here are solid,” they insist, while admitting that “there is not exact precedent for this complaint.” By amazing coincidence, there are 19 petitioners and 19 inadvertent usurpers. But fear not, because these selfless citizen litigants are ready to step into the breach and take the reins of government. “When in the past, Citizens have been appointed by the Governor to finish out a Senate term due to unusual circumstances, the Governor has typically chosen pedigreed, well known politicians,” they note, “but this is not necessary.” Apparently any chucklehead willing to pony up $14.74 for his one-nineteenth share of the $280 filing fee is good to go. “Petitioners are as entitled as anyone else to step in to help in a temporary way,” they continue, adding that “it makes sense to allow entitled and qualified citizens to utilize wisdom and fair judgment under oath to serve. There is nothing that prevents it.” Presumably the Arizona Attorney General and the current officeholders might be able to come up with one or two things that might prevent it. Like, for instance, nebulous handwaving about fraud coupled with generalized invocations of Alexander Hamilton being an insufficient basis to overturn an election that has long since been certified. Or the fact that the very same claims have been tried and rejected by multiple federal and state courts over and over again in the intervening six months. There’s also the minor matter that the pro se petitioners seek to shield their identities “due to a reasonable concern for their safety,” while insisting that they are indeed qualified to hold the offices they seek. We should just take their word for it and hope they consent to be sworn in under their real names. But a little sleuthing by Vice suggests that the creative litigants are GOP also-rans with ties to the QAnon community, which shared the suit widely over the weekend. But the group does give some indication of who they are by calling themselves “We the People,” a widely-used phrase in the QAnon community. One of the people involved in the “We The People” group is Daniel Wood, a former Marine who was a Republican candidate for Congress in last November’s elections. Wood, who was beaten by Democratic rival Rep. Raul Grijalva, is mentioned at the bottom of a press release about the lawsuit which was published by the right-wing website the Gateway Pundit. Also listed on the press release is Josh Barnett, a businessman who says he is a Republican candidate for Congress in 2022. Yes, it is very shocking. The same people demanding that auditors shine UV light on ballots to find the fugazis — this is supposed to help detect bamboo fibers in the ones shipped in from China — are basting into the state’s highest court demanding keys to the state house. “One cannot take a counterfeit bill from a bank and call it legal tender just because the bank didn’t catch the counterfeit at first,” they insist, defending their unorthodox demand. “That fraudulent bill would be removed from circulation despite the initial mistake in tendering it.” Well, good luck to ’em trying pass this three dollar bill off on the Arizona Supreme Court.
Cases dismissed for the most part due to standing. Evidence not looked at. Courts have not seen the cases----they just didn't take them up.
We mostly laugh at this but it's dangerous. The GOP is running a smoke machine trying to convince the crowd there's a fire.
If the extreme liberal Democrats did not cheat in the November 3, 2020 elections, they would welcome all these audits and let them go thru unimpeded. After all they did not cheat, right ET trolls? So, why are they fighting tooth to nail to stop this Arizona audit at all costs?
B1S2 put me on ignore, so I couldn't read his reply to me. Talking about being afraid of something Again B1S2: you state most of the cases were dismissed due to standing while this is simply not correct. Most of the cases were dismissed because of procedural issues AND lack of evidence. You seem to think courts not accepting a case means they didn't look into it but that's not how it works. I thought you were a man of facts? Then look it up and admit you are wrong. That's what men of facts do.