Posted on 04/26/2021 7:42:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The debate over the 2020 election has been granted new life, as Arizona state senate republicans have successfully managed to secure an audit that will recount all the ballots cast in Maricopa County, as well as forensically auditing the voting machines.
The audit began Friday and in short order Arizona Democrats filed a lawsuit to pause it, citing concerns it would cause “irreparable harm to the integrity of Arizona’s election systems” by revealing private voting information.
The judge in the case — a Republican appointee who has since recused himself due to a professional relationship in his office by one of the attorneys filing the suit — agreed to pause the audit if Democrats posted a $1 million bond, which they declined to do.
Now a new judge has been assigned and a hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning. And all sides, including former President Trump, have begun to weigh in. Meanwhile, the audit goes on.
Arizona's Maricopa County Forensic Audit is making news and getting national attention. Watch AZ Chairwoman @kelliwardaz as she gives the latest update on the Forensic Audit and the Democrat's continued attempts to stop the audit. #ElectionIntegrity #AzAudit pic.twitter.com/cV8T3hNWMy
— Arizona Republican Party (@AZGOP) April 25, 2021
For their part, Democrats believe the firm hired to conduct the audit is biased against the results of the 2020 election.
Republican state senators in Arizona have hired a Florida-based firm called Cyber Ninjas to oversee the audit. That move has raised concerns among Democrats, because of past tweets from the company’s chief executive spreading conspiracy theories about a stolen election in Arizona. Those tweets were deleted earlier this year.
President Biden carried Arizona in the 2020 election by a scant 10,000-vote margin, making Trump the first Republican presidential candidate to lose the state since 1996.
Trump weighed in over the weekend, calling for security to protect the auditors and shaming Arizona Governor Greg Ducey for not providing it. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is getting in front of whatever the results might be by declaring them already the purview of QAnon.
THEY ARE SCARED: Rachel Maddow freaks out about Arizona audit, live on MSNBC. pic.twitter.com/FUsKL3wj0n
— djcalligraphy™ (@DJcalligraphy) April 25, 2021
Anyone who believed the country had moved on from the political sniping surrounding the 2020 election should take a breath and get ready for round two.
Would they say anything else? We already how the Dems play: Admit nothing. Deny everything. Make counter-accusations.
need audits in WI, MI and PA
This audit will be shut down tomorrow, guaranteed.
You can see how they are lying to the public from the beginning by setting up a false narrative. They make it sound like CyberNinjas is the only firm doing the audit. That is not the case. There are four firms doing the auditing: Wake Technology Services, CyFIR, Digital Discovery and Cyber Ninjas.
Or, translating to English, Dems are afraid the auditors are honest. They haven’t succeeded in bribing or threatening them.
The people who rigged the election are evil. The are all in.
So when is biden and company removed and President Trump reseated in the oval office.
Biden is there illegally...he cant ‘just stay’... Or Trump could have ‘just stayed’ and saved us from left dem madness so far inflicted on us.
The lying cheaters are worried others might lie and cheat?
They are fighting like wolverines to stop this audit. When was the election, like 5 months ago? They’re still in full on obstruction mode. The only logical conclusion is they committed election fraud, full stop.
How can you be so sure?
The same people seeking to block the audit have advocated for post election audits for years.
They do what they have to do. Do we?
Because the judge switch is the result of a crooked backroom extortion deal
The original judge wouldnt have recused over something tiny like knowing one of th attorneys, they all know and work with / against each other
Another argument they are using is that Cyber Ninjas has no experience in elections. That is irrelevant. Their expertise is in detecting ink, paper, and if paper has been folded. It has nothing to do with elections and their procedures( except for mail in ballots where they have to be folded and they can detect if they were )
Everybody on FR should know about Dominoes.
No, not usually. But no one seriously thought this audit would ever happen so it could be we have some actual fighters in the ring for this. We’ll see what happens tomorrow, I guess.
Dimocrats don’t believe the firm is biased, they are worried they will find fraud. The dims are revolutionaries not honest interlocutors. They are not mistaken, they are determined to overthrow the government.
That’s an outstanding question.
We’ll see if anyone has the sense to make a motion to dismiss along those lines.
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