Arizona ballot audit that Dems fought is underway using tech to detect counterfeits

American Thinker ^ | 25 Apr, 2021 | Thomas Lifson

[MtnClimber]

As a rule, people who fight public disclosure tend to have something to hide. Democrats revealed how deeply they fear the discovery of ballot fraud in Arizona when they fought tooth and nail to prevent the audit now underway at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. Monica Showalter explained how hard they fought – and lost – thanks to a judge with guts that demanded a million-dollar bond from them to cover costs they might impose through their efforts to delay the count.

Yesterday saw the auditors at work, livestreamed from 9 different camera angles. One of the tests they are using that would scare the pants off of anyone who might have employed counterfeit ballots is scanning with UV Light for the watermarks that were used on the genuine ballots. This video shows an auditor performing that test:

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There are other tests as well, such as looking for a crease, which would be present in any absentee ballot that had to be folded in order to be mailed.

President Trump is concerned about security at the Coliseum and is demanding Governor Doug Ducey (with whom Trump has been feuding) supply “large-scale” forces:

[MtnClimber]

The DemRATs have been filing lawsuits to stop the investigation. Seems they are in a little panic. I am surprised they have not asked for taxpayer funded depends.

[knarf]

Pray for Arizona re-counters today in church.

[tired&retired]

What happens when the quantity comes up way short from processing the same ballot multiple times?

[The Louiswu]

Waste of time. Audit won’t change a darn thing.

[GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco]

Kabuki.

The real evidence has been destroyed or tampered with and any “audit” will only show fjb to be the winner and the results touted as irrefutable proof of his historic landslide victory.

[marktwain]

In Arizona, 1% of the ballots being fraudulent changes everything.

[Fido969]

So how is it going? Any hard info?

[Josa]

If Kelly is proven to have been elected to the Senate by fraud then the people of Arizona might decide they’ve had enough

[ConservativeInPA]

FYI, there are other cameras that are directly over the tables where they inspect the ballots, but they are not part of the live stream. The live stream you can view is paid by OAN. This is a forensic audit, not a recount. It looks for water marks and creases of mail-in ballots as mentioned in this article. They also will be investigating if voters are residents of AZ, if voters on the rolls are legal citizens of the US, if voters that sent mail-in ballots actually exist, whether voters were alive when they voted, if voters are actual 18 years or older, if mail-in ballots were received before or after allowable dates, if there are the same number of mail-in ballots as envelopes, and whether envelopes have valid signatures of registered voters. Plus, they will audit the voting machines.

Peter Navarro estimates the following in AZ (note: Maricopa county is a subset of this):

Absentee ballots cast from addresses other than where voters legal reside: 19,997
Absentee ballots return on or before the postmark date: 22,903
Double voters (in-state): 157
Ghost voters: 5,970
Mail-in ballots cast by voters after the voter registration deadline: 150,000
No address on file for voter: 2,000
Non-citizen voters: 36,473
Out-of-state voters who voted in-state: 5,726
Over-votes: 11,676
Total Possible Illegal Votes: 254,722
Biden "victory" Margin: 10,547

This is detailed in The Navarro Report Vol I, II, III. He also covers the potential fraud in other states.

[MtnClimber]

I think the counting has just started. It has been held up by lawsuits.

[glimmerman70]

This is what scares me. The dems may know it had been handled long ago. Machines erased and ballots shredded. The audit comes out correct and any accusation in the future about fraud will be called a stupid conspiracy.

However if fraud is found this will possibly give what we need to carry out audits in GA and Michigan.

[newfreep]

Tony Shaffer's tweet on Nov 6 is becoming VERY interesting...

[MtnClimber]

A part of the problem looks like the long time allowed for counting due to COVID and mail-in times is that it allows the fraudsters to gain access to voting lists to see who voted and who did not. The fake ballots can be assigned to someone who did not vote. There needs to be a large sample of people shown to have voted, but did not regularly vote in the past, where investigators go to their address and ask them in person if they voted.

[Richard Axtell]

My ballot was rejected by the ballot reading machine as I stood there. The election worker I spoke to said that later on someone would review that ballot, and it would be counted. I am waiting.

[NWFree]

60 day schedule set up but expected to be completed in 6 weeks.

[Fai Mao]

It will take them 45 days to finish. They are doing ore than checking for watermarks. I don’t think they want to let results trickle out.

[glimmerman70]

I would like to know after a certain number if they are finding fraud. Let the dems freak out some.

[HandBasketHell]

WATER MARKS!!!

Is anyone else here as hopping mad as I am?

We were REPEATEDLY told in November that the "water mark on the ballot" story was a vicious lie meant to give false hope to Trump voters.

So now it appears to be true and all that was needed to be done to detect fake ballots was to use a UV light???

If this is true, don't blame Democrats! Put the blame squarely where it belongs -- RINO-controlled state legislatures who refused to enforce voter ID and who refused to order a VERY SIMPLE uv-light check to detect fake ballots (if the water mark story is true).

Thank the RINOs for the mess we are in today -- facing court packing and making DC a state for starters.

Vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with conservative patriots, especially at the state level. It's the ONLY way election integrity will be restored.

[glimmerman70]

I think Trump had mentioned something about ballots being marked. Maybe one machine made all the ballots.