And while Cyber Ninjas are handling the ballots, they have spoiled many using blue and black pens and subjecting them to “tests” to look for non-existent watermarks. There’s voter fraud and ballot tampering going on all right, It’s going on right now.
Can no one see how unpatriotic it is to attempt to break down unity/trust in the election process in our constitutional quasi-democratic republic by a willfully ignorant/malicious faction [including honest unbiased members of their own party] with no self-respect that wants to impose authoritarian minority rule [dictatorship] upon the populace?
Exactly what is the point of the Arizona recount? Unless they find 7 million votes, it wouldn’t matter. And there was a 63 electoral vote difference in the election, and Arizona only has 11 votes, so it still doesn’t make any difference.
Dwelling, dwelling, dwelling….they’ve got nothing else, as usual, so they dwell away, day in and day out….grow up cowards! Its hard swallowing crow but move on….
This DELUDED FOOL STILL thinks that he is going to be put back into the White House!!!
Donald Trump hinted to cheering Mar-a-Lago guests that the disturbing Arizona ballot audit by a partisan private company could lead to his White House reinstatement.“Let’s see what they find,” Trump said in remarks captured on video at his Florida golf resort.“Some very interesting things are happening in Arizona,” he noted in the footage that appeared to be taken Wednesday during his farewell remarks before he heads to New Jersey for the summer.
“Let’s see what they find. I wouldn’t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes”, Trump added.“After that we’ll watch Pennsylvania, and you watch Georgia, then you’re going to watch Michigan and Wisconsin, and you’re watching New Hampshire. They found a lot of votes up in New Hampshire just now … you saw that?” he added, though it was unclear what Trump was referring to.“This was a rigged election, everybody knows it, and we’re going to be watching it very closely,” he concluded.
There’s absolutely no evidence it was a rigged election.
Among those “auditing” the Arizona ballots is one of the so-called insurrectionists who participated in the Capitol invasion on 06 January 2021 and, by extension, the murder of a Capitol police officer. How did this come about and who greased whose palms with how much $$$ to get Arizona authorities to look the other way?
This is only because the GOP in AZ (following Biden’s victory and McSally’s defeat last November) said, “Arizona’s turning blue? Not on our watch!” Some people just can’t let go of such things. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Hopefully, most voters will see this for the farce it is and head out in force in next year’s midterms (like they did in 2018) to widen the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. Passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act would help tremendously in that instance too.
Why is it that every time a fraudulent vote effort floats to the surface it involves republicans? They seem so concerned that only the right votes get counted, yet you see them doing things like the sham candidate in Florida, paying someone with the same name as the legitimate democratic candidate to be put on the ballot to confuse voters and weaken the vote for the real candidate. Are they all just liars and crooks?
The result is a mess featuring lawsuits, court-ordered pauses, procedural changes, widespread confusion, and a general sense that this unnecessary circus is incapable of producing reliable information — all in response to hysterical fraud allegations with no basis in reality.
It doesn’t help that GOP officials are limiting the audit to the election results in which Democrats won: Republican victories in Maricopa County are not part of this latest review. (The idea, evidently, is that there were systemic problems with parts of ballots, not ballots themselves.)
All of which again leads us to the inevitable feeling that this nonsense deserves widespread eye-rolling. Except, it may not be quite that simple.
It’s hardly a stretch to think the fix is in: Arizona Republicans will, in the near future, appear before cameras and effectively declare, “Never mind the count, the hand recount, and the independent audits. Our new review, led by our conspiratorial allies, proves that Donald Trump secretly won Arizona.”
The idea, obviously, is to create a new truth for Republicans, at which point pro-Trump forces can exploit the lie to justify new voter-suppression efforts and perhaps even related efforts in other states, where Republicans can hire Cyber Ninjas of their own.
Fact check: No evidence election audit in Maricopa County has found widespread election fraud
The claim that the ongoing election audit in Maricopa County has found 250,000 fraudulent ballots is rated FALSE because it is not supported by our research. The Arizona Senate liaison for the audit confirmed to USA TODAY that no such announcement has been made. Numerous prior county audits and lawsuits have confirmed the initial 2020 election results.
The claim that Dominion had 70 lawyers in Arizona trying to stop the audit of 2020 election ballots is FALSE, based on our research. A spokesperson for Dominion confirmed it has taken no legal action to stop the audit and did not have a team of attorneys in Arizona. The audit, by a firm with a questionable reputation, is an effort by Arizona Senate Republicans to challenge the 2020 election results in Maricopa County. Previous independent audits found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
AZ Republicans hire Cyber Ninjas to do the recount of ballots (the ballots have already been re-certified at least twice); CN has no experience in elections but they are Trump supporters and their leader is a conspiracy-theorist. Arizona former congressman was part of the January 6th insurrection and is now “reviewing” ballots People were rummaging through boxes marked complete; the reporter who took the picture is ejected, but those going through the boxes are not stopped. Blue pens were issued, which can be used to alter ballots; supposed to have red only.
The Republicans are wasting millions of dollars to re-re-re-certify the elections. The Democratic party wants to STOP the waste of money. Republicans kept repeating the Benghazi hearings, kept blathering about President Obama’s birth certificate, kept trying to overturn ACA while taking credit for things like Kynect (Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion for Kentucky) and claiming they want all of the benefits of ACA “but not Obamacare”.
Display almost 3 years ago
Fox News found voter fraud! https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-voter-fraud-republican-felony-charges-casting-ballot-for-dead-mother
The Love of Money is . . . almost 3 years ago
Where’s the division key to divide the country ?
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
I’m starting to think that ALL recounts must be:
Paid for by the entity who wants the recount
Observed by independent OUTSIDE observers. Preferably from a nation other than the USA.
Patjade almost 3 years ago
And while Cyber Ninjas are handling the ballots, they have spoiled many using blue and black pens and subjecting them to “tests” to look for non-existent watermarks. There’s voter fraud and ballot tampering going on all right, It’s going on right now.
superposition almost 3 years ago
Can no one see how unpatriotic it is to attempt to break down unity/trust in the election process in our constitutional quasi-democratic republic by a willfully ignorant/malicious faction [including honest unbiased members of their own party] with no self-respect that wants to impose authoritarian minority rule [dictatorship] upon the populace?
Odon Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Count away, waste money, waste time, and when you find you can’t demonstrate your desired outcome, then waste away.
FreyjaRN Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Ouch. But accurate.
Dani Rice almost 3 years ago
Exactly what is the point of the Arizona recount? Unless they find 7 million votes, it wouldn’t matter. And there was a 63 electoral vote difference in the election, and Arizona only has 11 votes, so it still doesn’t make any difference.
Zebrastripes almost 3 years ago
Dwelling, dwelling, dwelling….they’ve got nothing else, as usual, so they dwell away, day in and day out….grow up cowards! Its hard swallowing crow but move on….
scote1379 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Does the term Boondoggle mean anything here ?
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Donald Trump hinted to cheering Mar-a-Lago guests that the disturbing Arizona ballot audit by a partisan private company could lead to his White House reinstatement.“Let’s see what they find,” Trump said in remarks captured on video at his Florida golf resort.“Some very interesting things are happening in Arizona,” he noted in the footage that appeared to be taken Wednesday during his farewell remarks before he heads to New Jersey for the summer.
“Let’s see what they find. I wouldn’t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes”, Trump added.“After that we’ll watch Pennsylvania, and you watch Georgia, then you’re going to watch Michigan and Wisconsin, and you’re watching New Hampshire. They found a lot of votes up in New Hampshire just now … you saw that?” he added, though it was unclear what Trump was referring to.“This was a rigged election, everybody knows it, and we’re going to be watching it very closely,” he concluded.
There’s absolutely no evidence it was a rigged election.
cocavan11 almost 3 years ago
Among those “auditing” the Arizona ballots is one of the so-called insurrectionists who participated in the Capitol invasion on 06 January 2021 and, by extension, the murder of a Capitol police officer. How did this come about and who greased whose palms with how much $$$ to get Arizona authorities to look the other way?
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 3 years ago
This is enough to ALMOST make you feel sorry for the delusional old man STILL ranting and raving about an election HE LOST over 6 months ago… almost.
https://uproxx.com/viral/trump-video-mar-a-lago-election-rant-twitter-reactions/
WestNYC Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Missing button on the calculator = pointless
brwydave Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I think I can sell this neat little gizmo to the GOP central committees in a lot of states. Keep the production line in St Petersburg rolling along.
Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 3 years ago
One expects this from Banana Republics.. guess Arizona is not far removed.
Michael G. almost 3 years ago
Wait. Joe Arpaio is considering a gubernatorial run. :-0
JK. I hope.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member almost 3 years ago
The upgraded version of that device has a “legislate” button.
Northgalus2002 almost 3 years ago
This is only because the GOP in AZ (following Biden’s victory and McSally’s defeat last November) said, “Arizona’s turning blue? Not on our watch!” Some people just can’t let go of such things. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Hopefully, most voters will see this for the farce it is and head out in force in next year’s midterms (like they did in 2018) to widen the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. Passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act would help tremendously in that instance too.
Zen-of-Zinfandel almost 3 years ago
Whether it’s your pillow or a voting machine, be leery of the contents inside.
dickanders Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Why is it that every time a fraudulent vote effort floats to the surface it involves republicans? They seem so concerned that only the right votes get counted, yet you see them doing things like the sham candidate in Florida, paying someone with the same name as the legitimate democratic candidate to be put on the ballot to confuse voters and weaken the vote for the real candidate. Are they all just liars and crooks?
LJZ Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Jon Stuart summed up State politics years ago “Arizona is the Meth Lab of Democracy”
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
Well, deflect and project didn’t work, so now it’s time for Republicans to fabricate voter fraud that didn’t happen.
William Bednar Premium Member almost 3 years ago
It’s the Republican count: Two for me, one for you. Three for me, none for you, Four for me, take back the one I gave you….ect.
smartgrr almost 3 years ago
This morning we saw a pickup with bumper stickers all over like infowars.com and “He Won. Get Over It.” I was most amused.
Andylit Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Hey dipshit. It isn’t OVER yet.
The results have not been released.
pamela welch Premium Member almost 3 years ago
If I paid taxes in AZ, I would be so angry over this silliness.
briangj2 almost 3 years ago
The result is a mess featuring lawsuits, court-ordered pauses, procedural changes, widespread confusion, and a general sense that this unnecessary circus is incapable of producing reliable information — all in response to hysterical fraud allegations with no basis in reality.
It doesn’t help that GOP officials are limiting the audit to the election results in which Democrats won: Republican victories in Maricopa County are not part of this latest review. (The idea, evidently, is that there were systemic problems with parts of ballots, not ballots themselves.)
All of which again leads us to the inevitable feeling that this nonsense deserves widespread eye-rolling. Except, it may not be quite that simple.
It’s hardly a stretch to think the fix is in: Arizona Republicans will, in the near future, appear before cameras and effectively declare, “Never mind the count, the hand recount, and the independent audits. Our new review, led by our conspiratorial allies, proves that Donald Trump secretly won Arizona.”
The idea, obviously, is to create a new truth for Republicans, at which point pro-Trump forces can exploit the lie to justify new voter-suppression efforts and perhaps even related efforts in other states, where Republicans can hire Cyber Ninjas of their own.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-arizona-s-election-audit-matters-even-outside-arizona-n1265343
briangj2 almost 3 years ago
Fact check: No evidence election audit in Maricopa County has found widespread election fraud
The claim that the ongoing election audit in Maricopa County has found 250,000 fraudulent ballots is rated FALSE because it is not supported by our research. The Arizona Senate liaison for the audit confirmed to USA TODAY that no such announcement has been made. Numerous prior county audits and lawsuits have confirmed the initial 2020 election results.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/28/fact-check-false-claim-arizona-audit-found-evidence-election-fraud/4860721001/
The claim that Dominion had 70 lawyers in Arizona trying to stop the audit of 2020 election ballots is FALSE, based on our research. A spokesperson for Dominion confirmed it has taken no legal action to stop the audit and did not have a team of attorneys in Arizona. The audit, by a firm with a questionable reputation, is an effort by Arizona Senate Republicans to challenge the 2020 election results in Maricopa County. Previous independent audits found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/27/fact-check-dominion-lawyers-did-not-try-stop-arizona-audit/7357488002/
Nantucket Premium Member almost 3 years ago
AZ Republicans hire Cyber Ninjas to do the recount of ballots (the ballots have already been re-certified at least twice); CN has no experience in elections but they are Trump supporters and their leader is a conspiracy-theorist. Arizona former congressman was part of the January 6th insurrection and is now “reviewing” ballots People were rummaging through boxes marked complete; the reporter who took the picture is ejected, but those going through the boxes are not stopped. Blue pens were issued, which can be used to alter ballots; supposed to have red only.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/anthony-kern-arizona-maricopa-county-capitol-riot-140857881.html
RetVet24 almost 3 years ago
Should indicate it has no batteries either.
Nantucket Premium Member almost 3 years ago
The Republicans are wasting millions of dollars to re-re-re-certify the elections. The Democratic party wants to STOP the waste of money. Republicans kept repeating the Benghazi hearings, kept blathering about President Obama’s birth certificate, kept trying to overturn ACA while taking credit for things like Kynect (Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion for Kentucky) and claiming they want all of the benefits of ACA “but not Obamacare”.