Posted on 12/25/2021 6:06:49 AM PST by Libloather
Audit Forward, a group demanding a so-called “forensic audit” of the 2020 presidential election, submitted a petition to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office Tuesday.
This is similar to what pro-Donald Trump supporters have done in Arizona and Wisconsin, two other states the former GOP president lost in 2020.
The petition would require a review of all ballots and vote tallies for all federal, state and local elections, an examination of all state voter registrations and a review of all secretary of state communications, among a number of other requirements. Additionally, the petition aims to create triggers that would mandate “forensic audits” of future elections, such as tampered ballot boxes, destroyed election materials or when at least two poll books in a precinct are out of balance.
The petition states that local communities that do not cooperate with an “audit” are at risk of losing 10% of their state funding and anyone who interferes with the “audit” would be subject to a felony charge of up to one year or a fine of not more than $1,000.
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“Calls persist from those who have been lied to and taken advantage of by partisan state legislators, national figures, and others for unofficial, illegitimate reviews of the election results,” Benson said in a statement. “This small group of grifters and wealthy supporters is pursuing a political strategy that threatens the survival of our democracy, and our nation.”
Benson said the Bureau of Elections will process the petition “in a nonpartisan and unbiased manner, as they would any other submission.”
Voting rights advocacy groups also pushed back against the petition.
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The 2020 election was riddled with FRAUD !!!
FRAUD.
Anybody who does not want to be audited needs to go to the front of the list of those who should be audited.
I think that an audit would “threaten the survival” of HER term in office.
States “unwilling” to clean up their vote disenfranchise our votes. They should be “asked” to leave the Union
I’m going to hitch my political wagon to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. I’m tired of pushing Republicans to the center of the boxing ring and screaming at them to fight.
It’s a tiered democracy. Tier #2 counts the votes from tier #1. Tier #2 reports them to tier #3 as previously agreed upon terms. So of course an audit upsets tier #2 democracy.
How can verifying the integrity of any process threaten it?
By this idiot’s logic, a bank audit would threaten the nation’s banking system!
Sustaining the Steal
An audit should simply prove this was the “most honest, accurate, and secure” election, ever... right?
Why are they so scared?
Lord deliver us from these oath breaking corrupt compromised lying traitorous enemies holding us hostage and destroying our once great nation, in Jesus mighty name amen.
Amen.
Threatens the survival of our democrats. Fixed it for her. Merry Christmas!
YES...What you said...we are at War.
The question that remains unasked, so therefore it remains unanswered.
Did everyone froget how Al Gore demanded a recount of Fla. votes in THAT election?
I didn’t forget.
Don’t know what this “democracy” thing is that he’s talking about, but the Republic is in great danger.
Someone should put her on the spot and ask her to explain how stuffed ballot boxes, midnight appearance of ballots from unknown people, etc., makes an election guarantee democracy when the end result is a government not voted for by the citizens.
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