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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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
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To: Mark17

Great!

You got the point.

Questions usually work better than accusations.


81 posted on 06/06/2021 6:28:04 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: READINABLUESTATE
Articles like this are a good sign. They’re getting desperate.

Truth.

If there is any justice in the universe one of these lying propagandist will spontaneously combust on air.

82 posted on 06/06/2021 7:33:44 AM PDT by Kudsman (Baby Lives Matter)
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To: Williams

“Audit is unsustainable to our democracy” is gibberish.”

Obviously old timer no bellyfeel newspeak.


83 posted on 06/06/2021 7:46:32 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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