Arizona Republicans to begin auditing 2020 ballots in effort to undermine election results

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THE GOP-CONTROLLED AZ STATE SENATE ORDERED A BALLOT AUDIT : ONE OF THE MOST ABSURD & ALARMING CONSEQUENCES OF TRUMP'S BASELESS LIES ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION, executed by a PRIVATE Florida company & supported by FAR-RIGHT lawyer Lin Wood.
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Arizona Republicans to begin auditing 2020 ballots in effort to undermine election results
Audit will include a hand recount of all 2.1m ballots cast in Maricopa county in alarming consequence of Donald Trump’s baseless lies
theguardian.com
8:15 AM · Apr 22, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/22/arizona-republicans-begin-audit-2020-election-ballots

Nearly five months after Joe Biden was declared the official winner of the presidential race in Arizona, state Republicans are set to begin their own audit of millions of ballots, an unprecedented move many see as a thinly-veiled effort to continue to undermine confidence in the 2020 election results.

The GOP-controlled state senate ordered the audit, set to formally get underway this week, which may be one of the most absurd and alarming consequences to date of Donald Trump’s baseless lies about the 2020 election. It will be executed by a private Florida-based company. It also reportedly will be supported from far-right lawyer Lin Wood and observers from the far-right news network One America News Network.

The audit will be solely focused on Maricopa county, the largest in the state and home to a majority of Arizona’s voters. Biden narrowly defeated Trump in the county, a crucial battleground that helped the president win Arizona by around 10,000 votes. The audit will include a hand recount of all 2.1m ballots cast in the county, a process expected to take months.

Trump and allies have claimed, without evidence, there was fraud in Maricopa county. But the county has already conducted two separate audits of the 2020 election and found no irregularities. The Republican decision to continue to investigate the results, months after they were certified by both county and state officials, extends the life of election conspiracy theories. The audit also comes as Arizona Republicans are advancing legislation in the state that would make it harder to vote by mail.

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[PortTack]

1. So when they fabricate falsehoods and no one is able to watch..what then

[VMA131Marine]

2. I can guarantee that at least 11,000 Biden votes

will just disappear. This is truly a sham audit driven by pure partisanship.

[StarryNite]

3. Maricopa is my county and this makes me sick.

[FakeNoose]

4. If Maricopa County voters behaved the same way as the rest of us

... the Dems mostly voted by mailed ballot, while the Republicans voted mostly in-person on November 3rd. I don't know that's the case but I'm guessing it is. It would mean that the Dem votes are ON PAPER and verifiable. At least the mailed ballots are.

The Republican votes - well who knows? Have the electronic voting machines all been impounded since November 3rd? Who has had access to the voting machines since that time? It would be questionable to run an audit now if the voting machines have not been impounded and locked up for the last 5.5 months.

[bluestarone]

5. If a judge cannot putb the cabosh to this shit

Our elections are over!

[ZonkerHarris]

6. More grifting. who pays for this? Taxpayers money goes to Trump cronies. Again.

[FelineOverlord]

7. Arizona Republicans to begin auditing 2020 ballots in effort to undermine election results

But they plan to OANN as “non-partisan” observers for “full transparency.”

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[SheltieLover]

8. Pathetic!

Desperate as they see Joe appointing wooooomen, people of color, especially Black women!