Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Lay that standard next to the GOP vote not to authorize a 1/6 Commission. For that matter start applying a single standard to all of your critical posts on any subject.

Everything has been covered by all of the law suits and state authorized recounts. The AZ 'audit' is a sham.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/19/gop-arizona-election-audit/

I watched the GOP’s Arizona election audit. It was worse than you think.

Cyber Ninjas is hunting for bamboo fibers and cheese dust.

But procedures should never change in the middle of an audit. Here, they did, and not just a couple of times, but almost daily. The training for volunteers also evolved: At first, they got no guidance about how to determine a voter’s intent on a ballot; only a week later did the auditors add a few slides to their training presentation, summarizing a few scenarios in which the volunteers might run into this issue. When I asked my designated auditor about these shifting guidelines, he called it “process improvement.”

What I saw in Arizona shook me. If the process wraps up and Cyber Ninjas puts together some kind of report, that report will almost certainly claim that there were issues with Maricopa County’s ballots. After all, Cyber Ninjas chief executive Doug Logan has publicly voiced his wild conjecture about the 2020 election. But the real problem is the so-called audit itself.

Audits are supposed to make our elections more secure and transparent — to strengthen the public’s trust in our democratic process. Maricopa County is known for having some of the best election practices in the country: Officials had already undertaken a hand-count audit and a forensic audit of their 2020 ballots and found no evidence of fraud. Now a group with no expertise, improvising procedures as it goes, is sowing doubt about the result of a well-run election.

This is not an audit, and I don’t see how this can have a good outcome.