Votes are still being counted in Arizona. It won’t change the winner. But it might change America.
I think it's pretty clear to just about everyone that the count results of this phony audit in Maricopa wasn't about the 2020 election. But about setting up the 2022 and 2024 election for justifying questioning every election count in the future. The fucking republiqan assholes now in power have successfully embedded in the primitive maga brain that elections can no longer be trusted and it will be their right to question everything.
I think mitch has just enough intelligence to come up with this type of plan and he certainly is completely evil enough to do it.
Apparently there are 10's of laws being passed that allow the republiqans to order recounts and cancelling counts being passed right now. Not just voter laws.
Arizona Supreme Court allows release of Senate audit records
"The mess in Maricopa "Is the Maricopa County election audit truly an audit? Here's what professional auditors have to say" "
Documents held by a contractor hired by the Arizona Senate to audit results of the 2020 election are subject to public disclosure, the court ruled
FILE - In this April 22, 2021, file photo, Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan, left, a Florida-based consultancy, talks about overseeing a 2020 election ballot audit ordered by the Republican lead Arizona Senate at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, during a news conference in Phoenix. Arizona’s largest county has approved nearly $3 million for new vote-counting machines to replace those given to legislative Republicans for a partisan review of the 2020 election. The GOP-controlled Maricopa County Board of Supervisors said Wednesday, July 14, 2021 that the machines were compromised because they were in the control of firms not accredited to handle election equipment. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) Credit: AP
Author: Associated Press Published: 4:31 PM MST September 14, 2021 Updated: 4:52 PM MST September 14, 2021
PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected the state Senate's effort to keep records of its ongoing review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County secret.
The high court without comment rejected the appeal filed after lower courts ruled the documents held by the contractor conducting the review are public records.
The watchdog group American Oversight sued in an effort to bring more transparency to the so-called election audit prompted by former President Donald Trump's loss in Arizona.
Is the Maricopa County election audit truly an audit? Here's what professional auditors have to say ]...] Most certified auditors contacted by The Arizona Republic, including accountants, internal auditors, and forensic auditors, say this is not an audit — or at least it doesn't appear to be following the generally accepted standards for one, from the outside. P - Professional auditors are impartial and objective, for example, they try to maintain a healthy working relationship with the entity they are auditing, and they do not release results early, said Laura Long, a former auditor for the Arizona Office of the Auditor General. None of this has been the case for the Senate contractors, she said. P - "I've been calling it a partisan recount," she said. P - At least one auditor by trade believes strongly this is an audit — he also happens to be helping run it. Randy Pullen, a former state GOP chairman who is helping the Senate on audit-related communications, is a certified public accountant and a former partner at Deloitte, the national audit and accounting firm. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=164433598
EXPLAINER: As Arizona election ‘audit’ ends, new ones begin
"The mess in Maricopa"
SEE RED below.
Politics Sep 25, 2021 2:20 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The most closely watched attempt by Republicans to examine the 2020 presidential election in a battleground state lost by former President Donald Trump is coming to an embarrassing end in Arizona, but their efforts are cranking up elsewhere.
These reviews go by various names: “audits” or “investigations,” sometimes with the word “forensic” attached.
But their scope is not always well-defined or understood, even by those pushing them, and critics say they really have one goal: to validate Trump’s baseless claims that widespread fraud cost him the election, regardless of what the reviews might find.
None of the reviews can change the fact that Joe Biden won the presidency. His victory was certified by officials in each of the swing states he won and by Congress on Jan. 6 — after Trump’s supporters, fueled by the same false charges that generated the audits, stormed the Capitol to try to prevent the electoral certification.
Here’s a closer look at the Republican election reviews:
WHERE IS THE GOP PURSUING THESE ELECTION REVIEWS AND WHY?
Auditing efforts have occasionally played out on a smaller scale, such as in Fulton County, Georgia, which includes Atlanta, individual counties in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and in a state legislative race in New Hampshire.
The secretary of state’s office — where a top deputy has previously said the 2020 elections were “smooth and secure” — said it would audit four of the state’s most populous counties: three voted for Biden and the other is where Republicans are quickly losing ground in the booming Dallas suburbs. ___
WHY DO DEMOCRATS AND OTHER CRITICS SAY THE REVIEWS ARE BOGUS?
The quests to unearth election fraud have not, so far, even remotely resembled the kind of audits that are widely recognized as legitimate by the professional auditing community.
In Arizona, election experts have cited numerous flaws .. https://apnews.com/article/arizona-5179ca25963431ae137a86ef999a69c2 .. with the review, from biased and inexperienced contractors to conspiracy-chasing funders and bizarre, unreliable methods. Nearly every allegation made by the review team so far has crumbled under scrutiny.
Democrats say Republicans are simply perpetuating Trump’s “big lie” of baseless claims .. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-trump-misinformation-aa051fa751d718407638dbe308647a7a .. about election fraud. They say those claims have eroded confidence in elections and that Republicans are on a mission to seize power by taking away voting rights and undermining both democracy and elections. ___
SHOULD THEY EVEN BE CALLED “AUDITS”?
Experienced auditors say no.
That’s because actual election audits follow standard procedures and are conducted by experienced professionals. In Arizona, the lead contractor, Cyber Ninjas, had no prior election auditing experience.
Proponents like to use the term “forensic” in conjunction with “audit” or “investigation.” But the term “forensic” describes techniques used to investigate a crime. There’s no evidence to support any of the claims made by Trump and his allies, let alone evidence of a crime.
Audits also must be viewed as independent. But in these cases, they are being pushed by one political party and, in Arizona, the effort was funded almost entirely by donations from Trump supporters who have promoted conspiracy theories surrounding the election.
There also are security concerns about granting access to election equipment.
Voting systems that pass anti-tampering tests are certified by states, which have chain-of-custody laws that dictate voting machine security and access. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission accredits labs to test voting machines and provides guidance to states on how to maintain a chain of custody over voting systems. ___
Nevertheless, it drew the attention of Trump and his allies who were grasping for ways to support their false claims about the 2020 election.
In Michigan, Republican legislative leaders resisted calls for an Arizona-style “audit.” They instead empaneled a GOP-led Senate committee that held hearings on allegations, reviewed thousands of pages of subpoenaed documents and produced a report that found no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud.
“Our clear finding is that citizens should be confident the results represent the true results of the ballots cast by the people of Michigan,” the report concluded. “The Committee strongly recommends citizens use a critical eye and ear toward those who have pushed demonstrably false theories for their own personal gain.”
It didn’t mollify Trump. The former president continues to pressure lawmakers for another review. ___
HOW MUCH IS IT COSTING TAXPAYERS?
In Arizona, the Republican-controlled Senate — which commissioned the “audit” and hired the lead contractor — kicked in $150,000 in taxpayer money. But that was dwarfed by the $5.7 million disclosed in July that prominent supporters of Trump had raised to fund the effort.
Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, will spend $3 million to replace its vote-counting machines after determining they had been compromised by the Republican audit.
In Wisconsin, the budget for the audit commissioned by the Republican Assembly speaker is $680,000 in taxpayer money. New Hampshire’s audit cost more than $123,000, though the law authorizing it didn’t include any money to pay for it.
Officials in Pennsylvania and Texas have not said how much it will cost or who will conduct the audits.
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