Posted on 05/26/2021 11:58:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
ATLANTA (AP) — Six months after Donald Trump’s loss, conspiracy theorists and backers of former President Donald Trump are continuing their push for repeated examinations of ballots and finding limited successes.
A Georgia judge last week awarded a group the chance to review mail ballots in a large Georgia county that includes Atlanta. Officials in a rural Michigan county on Tuesday debated a review of their voting machines. A similar debate has caused sharp divisions in a New Hampshire town. In some cases, the efforts have been inspired by an audit of the votes in Arizona’s Maricopa County, an elaborate exercise engineered by the GOP-led state Senate.
The efforts are unlikely to yield any new revelations about President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. The votes have been counted — and often recounted — and certified by local officials. Still, the lingering debate and legal wrangling have propelled suspicions and advanced debunked theories. And their sometimes misleading conclusions have been amplified by Trump, whose false allegations of election fraud sparked the push.
The profusion of audits alarms election experts, who note that the Arizona audit has set a troubling new precedent of third-party, partisan review of the ballots, long after elections are over.
“This is bad enough to see it happen once,” Eddie Perez, an expert on voting systems at the OSET Institute, said of Arizona, but seeing it elsewhere in the country is “dangerous for democracy.’”
The audits are serving a clear political purpose in firing up the Republican Party’s base. At a rally outside Phoenix last week featuring GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, references to the Arizona audit drew much more enthusiastic applause than immigration, normally the top hot-button issue on the right in the border state.
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Votes were certified by “top men”
” Still, the lingering debate and legal wrangling have propelled suspicions and advanced debunked theories. And their sometimes misleading conclusions have been amplified by Trump, whose false allegations of election fraud sparked the push.”
They just keep repeating “the big lie” that the election was an honest one.
What are these people going to say if these charges are proven. They are so smug with their rhetoric
No wait, look over at CA mass shooting, G Maxwell is seeking stuff.
Nothing to see here.
Don’t bother reading this - it’s just a bunch of lies strung together.
AP = Always Propaganda
Amerikan Pravda...................
Sounds like they are staring to sweat. Gonna be a long hot summer.
It would be impossible to remove the Moldy Potato from the White Nursing Home at this point short of something like impeachment, which ain’t going to happen with the Potato’s nursing home guardians in control of Congress right now.
But I fully support any and all audits, because I want jail time (would prefer hanging) for anyone caught f***ing with the election or ballots.
They conveniently left out what has already been found in New Hampshire but that has already gotten attention. The only question now is what to do once states start decertifying the results.
“Dangerous for democracy”.
But stuffing ballot boxes with fake ballots, that’s just fine.
Yup. just reporting the facts, no editorialization in that lead-in sentence.
Without the opinion it reads:
Audits and examinations of 2020 ballots are finding evidence of fraud.
“Don’t bother reading this - it’s just a bunch of lies strung together.”
A superb take by you. This was written by two moronic Asspress wastrels.
Until the auditors take their findings to court and gets some judges to rule in their favor there is nothing for the other side to sweat about.
Exactly this. I wish them all the luck in the world, but they’re going to need a court finding that says some kind of material fraud happened, preferably a finding of fraud from a federal court. What do I mean by ‘material fraud?” Enough fraud that would have likely swung the election, like finding 10K fraudulent ballots in a race that was decided by a margin of 20K votes.
I guess it’s not impossible that happens, but I think it’s hugely unlikely. I don’t even see a federal court taking one of these cases up because as the Court would say, there’s no justiciable solution to be granted. Courts don’t generally hear cases unless the court can provide a remedy. It sounds rigged....because it is.
What are these Rats and their DNC Media tools so afraid of exactly?
Don’t they want their puppet ChiCom Joe to be seen as legitimate?
He certainly isn’t by much if not a majority of the country now.
What’s a danger to democracy is when people do not have faith in the fairness and integrity of an election, which is precisely the effect that HR-1 will have.
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