Recount done for 2.1 million ballots in audit of Maricopa County election

[hookaleft]

PHOENIX — The hand recount of 2.1 million ballots from the 2020 Maricopa County election has been completed, an Arizona Senate spokesman said Monday.

Three boxes of Braille ballots — about 50 to 60 in total — were left to be counted along with large-type, overseas military and duplicated ballots but all others had gone through the process, which began April 23.

Ken Bennett, state Senate audit liaison, has said the end of the hand count wouldn’t immediately signal a final audit report.

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You got to read the rest...it is a hoot.


https://ktar.com/story/4496413/recount-done-for-2-1-million-ballots-in-audit-of-maricopa-county-election/

[Hugin]

1. Well, gee whiz...

I'm floored they didn't immediately blurt out, "IT WUZ STOLENZ!111!!!i!!1"

But, you know it's coming. Wait for it... Wait for it...

[Deminpenn]

2. Calling Inspector Clouseau

[krispos42]

3. The result is meaningless

The ballots were spoiled in Day One, when the "auditors" were seen with blue pens in their hot little hands, and the process discredited when they kicked out observers on Day Two or Day There.

No result has credibility. None. The original results are the only valid results.

[Whiskeytide]

4. How to tell when someone is full of shit and ...

… is not very good at hiding it…

“ Fann has said the aim of the audit is to restore faith in the election system and find ways to improve Arizona’s voting laws, not to reverse the result of the election.”

But they are only cyber ninja-ing the prez and Senate races narrowly won by Dems. Hmmmm.

[GoCubsGo]

5. It's well past time to stop calling this thing an "audit" and a "recount."

It is neither. It meets none of the formal criteria for a legal audit. As FiveThirtyEight says, it is a "partisan inquisition. Continuing to refer to it as "audit" or "recount" only legitimizes what is not legitimate, and will only lead to more of this kind of stunt elsewhere.

[kentuck]

11. It is attempted election fraud.

More accurately.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. They've passed octupling-down. They're going for a new record.

Ken Bennett, state Senate audit liaison, has said the end of the hand count wouldn’t immediately signal a final audit report.

Resources have been shifting to a paper examination of mail ballot envelopes for signatures as counting has come to a finish.

Bennett said that process is to address questions such as “Are there folds in the 1.9 million ballots that came in and out by mail? Are alignment marks on the fronts and the backs of the ballot aligning as authentic ballots should? Is there a depression in the oval where a human hand-held device would have filled in that oval as opposed to an inkjet printer or a Xerox machine or whatever you might think?”

Other parts of the audit still to come could potentially include a second tabulation of scanned images, but Bennett or others haven’t provided details about what that might entail if it happens.

I guess they didn't find any bamboo filaments in the ballots themselves, so now they're going to check the mailing envelopes for evidence that they were mailed from Beijing. Oh, and a heads up for Ken: a "human hand-held device" used to fill in the oval is commonly called a "pen" among professionals.

And they're still looking for the joker who smeared a small amount of panda feces over TFG's name on the ballot and whether or not that should count as a vote.

[spanone]

7. It's a fucking travesty.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

8. I hope the citizens of Maricopa County can file a successful lawsuit

against AZ State Senators and any other AZ officials or individuals complicit in this breach of voter privacy, and monumental waste of taxpayer time and money.

[kentuck]

9. 50 or 60 braille ballots?

I thought it was reported 50-60,000 ??

[kentuck]

10. Did they really lick the envelope?

They will need to do DNA tests to find out for sure?

[panader0]

12. Don't give them any ideas kentuck.

They'd probably say, "Wait, we are not done. The envelopes have to be examined to determine
if they were made by humans or reptiles."