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Republican election audit fever 'unsustainable' for U.S. democracy, experts warn
NBC 'News' via MSN ^ | 6/04/21 | Allan Smith

Posted on 06/05/2021 6:13:43 PM PDT by Libloather

Republican-led efforts to re-examine last fall's vote are spreading as experts and election officials warn that the proliferation amounts to a grave threat to U.S. democracy.

At the center of the push is Arizona, where the private company hired by the Republican-controlled state Senate continues its review of more than 2 million Maricopa County ballots, despite prior audits finding no evidence of fraud. With former President Donald Trump and others on the right following that count closely — despite it having no legal ability to overturn the result — GOP officials and voters have pushed for similar probes in at least five other states.

In Georgia, a judge last month awarded a group of plaintiffs, led by a known conspiracy theorist, a limited review of mail-in ballots in Fulton County. (That effort is still being litigated.) In Wisconsin, the Republican state House speaker recently hired a team of retired police officers and an attorney to probe the 2020 election.

In Michigan, state elections officials have warned local clerks in two counties that county commissioners have no authority to require further auditing or third-party reviews of election records and equipment. In New Hampshire, the audit of a single statehouse race - which officials said found no evidence of fraud or malfeasance - was seized upon by the former president and his supporters, who've pushed for its expansion. And in Pennsylvania, a trio of GOP state lawmakers visited the site of the Arizona ballot review and called for a similar probe in the Keystone State.

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To: Libloather
To the rulers of the Rat party, democracy is defined as their total and permanent control as the majority party. How they intend to maintain their majority is easily explained—-any way they can.
61 posted on 06/05/2021 7:49:49 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
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To: JonPreston

Bannon is totally stinking AWESOME! Luv Raheem and Natalie Winters with National Pulse. so much info. so many fronts to this war. Fiercest? Spiritual.


62 posted on 06/05/2021 7:51:03 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Libloather

I’m an old vet 70+

Learned long ago politicians regardless of party are only in it for themselves..

Through the 60’s our county was blessed with the Greatest Generation our parents.

As the baby boomers or the Failed Generation came of age during Nam we lost the country to those who refused to put their life on the line..

Today the Failed Generation is seemingly demonstrating collective dementia lead by a draft dodger...

Go figure..


63 posted on 06/05/2021 7:54:59 PM PDT by montanajoe ( )
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To: Libloather

Experts are has been drips. I call BS to experts.


64 posted on 06/05/2021 7:56:44 PM PDT by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: Libloather

WATERMARK...SOON


65 posted on 06/05/2021 8:03:44 PM PDT by northislander
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To: Libloather
the proliferation amounts to a grave threat to U.S. democracy

Yes it does.

That's good.

66 posted on 06/05/2021 8:05:59 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: old curmudgeon
We need to get them to explain how.

Do they really want to go there? They can’t explain squat.

67 posted on 06/05/2021 8:08:39 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force combat pilot )
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To: montanajoe
Today the Failed Generation is seemingly demonstrating collective dementia lead by a draft dodger

And Joe is not the first one of those to pollute the Oval Office.

68 posted on 06/05/2021 8:11:05 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
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To: Libloather

Audits are a grave threat to ALL criminals.


69 posted on 06/05/2021 8:16:30 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Libloather

We should have regular audits, that look for every type of fraud possible.

And we should have consistent clear guidelines on the controls that should be present to prevent, limit, catch and prosecute fraud.

Every state should have an election fully audited at least once every 20 years.


70 posted on 06/05/2021 8:22:30 PM PDT by DannyTN (,)
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To: Libloather

The experts and the media certainly demonstrated this in 2000 and 2016, didn’t they?


71 posted on 06/05/2021 8:33:20 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Libloather

What a bunch of self-serving hooey! Dimmocommies LOVE fraud; it’s the main way they can get elected. Look at the wholesale destruction of the U.S. since they cheated their way into office; it’s like a list of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, only with like 20 Horsemen added. Destruction of jobs, beggaring our grandchildren with enormous and unnecessary debt, enriching our enemies at our expense, turning our once-great universities into commie factories, calling everyone and everything “racist”, allowing unfettered invasion of our country by anything and anyone in order to get future D voters, etc. etc.


72 posted on 06/05/2021 8:47:08 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Libloather

The Infamous Experts

Top People

Top...


73 posted on 06/05/2021 9:31:31 PM PDT by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: Libloather

Their “experts” are experts at election fraud.

Expose em all.


74 posted on 06/05/2021 10:29:03 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: ncalburt

Last fall I took great pleasure in selling $31,000 worth of ComCast Stock for my father. The stock was at an all time high and I hated that he had it in his portfolio. He inherited it from my mom’s aunt who had owned a lot of AT&T stock, for many years.

Dad died in March at 95.


75 posted on 06/05/2021 10:33:15 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Libloather
Republican election audit fever 'unsustainable' for U.S. democracy, experts warn

Experts = Agenda driven partisans

76 posted on 06/05/2021 10:44:55 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Libloather

A corrupt media amounts to a grave threat to U.S. democracy.


77 posted on 06/05/2021 10:51:34 PM PDT by willk
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To: Libloather

Are these experts those same Cultural Marxist Professors that are pushing Critical Race Theory?


78 posted on 06/06/2021 12:44:01 AM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Libloather
In Michigan, state elections officials have warned local clerks in two counties that county commissioners have no authority to require further auditing or third-party reviews of election records and equipment.

Let them warn.

Audit.

79 posted on 06/06/2021 4:50:18 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: Libloather
Tammy Patrick, senior adviser to the elections program at Democracy Fund, a nonpartisan foundation aimed at bolstering the U.S. democratic system, said she's been a longtime advocate of post-election audits. But she hesitates to label what's happening in Arizona and what is being considered elsewhere as "audits."

So this is the experts I take it?

I suspect they are not really a nonpartisan foundation at all.

80 posted on 06/06/2021 5:02:14 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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