Original ballots? What did they count, Xerox copies of ballots?
End of June? Nothing to see here, move along.
The auditors answered her question as to when the audit would be complete, they answered “we expect by the end of June”. So it’s not a hard date.
The problem within the AZ State Legislature is that each chamber has only a +1 majority and one of the AZ GOP Senators is a turncoat, Paull Boyer. He’s being recalled and signatures are due by mid-June. A recall may or may not force his hand when it comes time for the legislature to take action.
1. The Maricopa Sheriff is a lefty.
2. The AZ AG is a fence-sitter nodding to the Never-Trump clique.
3. The Governor is not a friend of the Trump movement.
The Senate’s leverage is limited.
The most important result coming out of AZ is not throwing the MCBOS in jail (although our emotions would love to see it) because the AZ Legislature is not going to vote to do that unless Arizonans get in their grill frequently and even then some of the legislators will pay lip service and cast blame somewhere else.
I view the most important result out of AZ to be the legislature’s report and new election reform laws. I wish it was more but I don’t think AZ will be the state that slams it down like to needs to be done. I just don’t think AZ has the enforcement muscle but I could be wrong and I hope I’m wrong.
When the other dominoes (states) begin to fall, one of the other states will forge a complaint to SCOTUS in a Petition for Writ of Quo Warranto, all the states will back that and join other groups to push it.
Quo Warranto is planned, an attack plan is already in existence with it as the objective. It’s not me saying it.
The AZ Senate is calling for an extension to see what other elected offices could be brought under the microscope. This could possibly bring them more leverage because like so many other ‘red states’, it’s a good bet that their ranks have been infiltrated by persons in office due to machine voting.
But it’s probably going to be another state or group of states like GA, PA, MI, WI, NH that follow AZ’s lead for a full forensic audit, then as momentum builds it becomes a Quo Warranto movement.
It's looking like some of the irrefgulariries , especially the internet related ones, went through the Sheriffs office. It would be devastating if evidence comes out that the top law officer of Maricopa County was a player and /or enabler in the election steal in AZ.
“Tweeted out a poll” An opinion poll about this = nada.
When handled per AZ law, a messed up ballot that can’t be fed into the counting machines, is given a serial number. In the presence of multiple observers, an election official is supposed to mark a clean ballot with the same votes as the spoiled one, and write the same serial number on the “duplicate” as is on the spoiled original. The original goes into one pile for storage, the duplicate goes for counting.
At the Senate hearing, the auditors described finding numerous “duplicate ballots” with the required serial numbers written on them. Reportedly many “spoiled ballots” had no numbers (or just a 2 digit number that didn’t fit the serial numbers’ multi-digit pattern). This thwarted the intent of the law, which was that originals could be matched to their replacements, allowing the accuracy of “duplication” to be checked.
They did not say, in the parts I heard, that there was a numerical shortage of spoiled ballots versus duplicate ballots. It would seem that auditors could easily isolate and total the raw number of total ballots in the “spoiled” stack and in the “duplicates” stack. Count the votes for each candidate on the spoiled originals and the same for the duplicates, then compare the two aggregate totals for discrepancies. I’d expect some very small variance, no matter how hard people and machines “try” to get it perfect. But more than a few off, and that signals a major flaw in the canvas.
Has anyone seen credible reports of the total number of spoiled originals versus duplicates? I’d be very interested in seeing those.
End of June? I thought it was supposed to be over by May 14. This is starting to remind me of the Durham investigation.
“AZ GOP Chair Dr. Kelli Ward: Forensic Audit Should Be Finished by End of June...”
Oh, about the same time the Durham indictments will come down.