Posted on May 8, 2021
Arizona's dangerous vote audit includes a hunt for bamboo
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Election conspiracies. A clandestine cybersecurity group called the Cyber Ninjas. A search for traces of bamboo based on a wild notion that fake ballots arrived from Asia.
It sounds like the plot of a fictional thriller, but it's the reality of the ongoing Arizona election "audit" -- which is the farthest thing from a true audit. It might be comical if it were not so destabilizing for our democracy.
Post-election audits, when done correctly, are a smart idea. But that is not what is occurring in Arizona right now. A traditional post-election audit is conducted by trained election professionals, under the eye of political party representatives of both sides, who compare a percentage of the ballots with the official tally. The goal is to check a set of paper ballots to ensure that the voting equipment counted them correctly.
Arizona law requires this kind of audit, in which county election officials review 2% of the precincts in a county while party representatives of both sides look on. If the audit shows a discrepancy in the count, then the audit is expanded to additional precincts. The secretary of state, the state's chief election official, oversees the process, promulgating rules in an official manual. It's a fair, open, transparent and bipartisan process.
Maricopa County, Arizona's largest county and home to Phoenix, went even further than that due to continuing unfounded allegations by Republicans that something was amiss. After the initial audit, the county engaged in logic and accuracy tests of voting machines. Then they hired two independent auditors to check the machines again to confirm the vote totals. All of these reviews came to the same conclusion: The results were accurate. Joe Biden validly won the most votes in Maricopa County and, ultimately, the state.
It sounds like the plot of a fictional thriller, but it's the reality of the ongoing Arizona election "audit" -- which is the farthest thing from a true audit. It might be comical if it were not so destabilizing for our democracy.
Post-election audits, when done correctly, are a smart idea. But that is not what is occurring in Arizona right now. A traditional post-election audit is conducted by trained election professionals, under the eye of political party representatives of both sides, who compare a percentage of the ballots with the official tally. The goal is to check a set of paper ballots to ensure that the voting equipment counted them correctly.
Arizona law requires this kind of audit, in which county election officials review 2% of the precincts in a county while party representatives of both sides look on. If the audit shows a discrepancy in the count, then the audit is expanded to additional precincts. The secretary of state, the state's chief election official, oversees the process, promulgating rules in an official manual. It's a fair, open, transparent and bipartisan process.
Maricopa County, Arizona's largest county and home to Phoenix, went even further than that due to continuing unfounded allegations by Republicans that something was amiss. After the initial audit, the county engaged in logic and accuracy tests of voting machines. Then they hired two independent auditors to check the machines again to confirm the vote totals. All of these reviews came to the same conclusion: The results were accurate. Joe Biden validly won the most votes in Maricopa County and, ultimately, the state.
Arizona's dangerous vote audit includes a hunt for bamboo
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Election 2020
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This isn't about getting to any truth. This is strictly about the aquisition of power by people who care more about power than they do the ideals of this country. If maintaining the lie of an election fraud helps them gain power, then that's what they will do, regardless of the damage is causes.
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I do not know why members of the US House and Senate along with Trump and his cronies have not been charged under 18 USC Chap 15 is strange.
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How is a bunch of people sitting around recounting things that have already been counted "Dangerous"? Under the "Eye of political party representatives of both sides" would have been nice during the original count.
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SPC Kevin Ford
It was under the eye of both parties during the original recount. Heck, it is a Republican state where the Republicans ran the recounts. This is being done in secret by a group with no accountability.
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SGT (Join to see)
It's being done by several groups, inciting mistrust and fear based on the name of one of the groups and calling them "Clandestine" is just more of the socialist scare tactics. There were cases of Republican proctors being removed from the tally rooms and barricades being erected across windows and glass dividers in other States. But the ? was, how is a recount dangerous.
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