Fact check: Arizona audit chief baselessly raises suspicion about 74,000 ballots

CNN ^ | July 19,2021

[Svartalfiar]

What they’re saying is this -— the requested-ballots list stops getting updated 11 days before Election Day but the submitted-ballots list continues to get updated until the day before Election Day.

I am not sure I understand this explanation. This is a very convoluted analysis. WHY would they updated the submitted ballots list but STOP updating the requested ballots list?

It makes sense, but it supports those being fake votes, it doesn't explain their existence! Submitted ballots should follow requested ballots - how can a ballot be submitted if it was never requested? You can always have a lower number submitted, but impossible (outside fraud/error) to have a higher number. If the cut-off date for requesting ballots was 23OCT, then it makes sense to stop updating that total, because it should be staying the same. Whereas submitted votes can come in for days after, so that total should continue to increase for longer.

What I don't get is that they're supposedly mail-in votes, but the explanation is that they were in-person early votes that were added as mail-ins, yes? If that's the case, then early-voting for in person should show a total that comes up 74M ballots short of what that number should be, but I haven't heard anything about them missing thousands of ballots!

[Svartalfiar]

The claim is the 74K were received but never mailed out. The county says that's because they were early voted in person so of course they weren't mailed out.

No one is claiming they were never printed or dispersed.

So does the county claim that the in-person early voting is short those same 74M ballots? Or does that total line up, and these ballots really are 'extra'?

[semimojo]

There are people making that claim, specifically ballots being sent back that weren't initially dispersed.

I'm pretty sure they're saying there were 74K more ballots received than were mailed out.

[Irish Eyes]

Apparently, the board will answer the questions for CNN, who has no experience in election auditing.

LOL...of course they will answer CNN questions. They can lie to CNN until their heads fall off. CNN will believe every word they say and sell it as the truth.

[semimojo]

So does the county claim that the in-person early voting is short those same 74M ballots? Or does that total line up, and these ballots really are 'extra'?

The auditors aren't saying any ballots are missing - that would be huge news. They're saying more ballots were received than mailed out. The county says those extra ballots were in-person early voting.

That sounds plausible but it has to be squared against the in-person voting numbers the county originally reported. I'm assuming the auditors will do that.

[HollyB]

Agree. We see this bs all over the liberal world. Why is it being spammed on FR

[HollyB]

And yet here we are. They create confusion where there should not be.

[AB AB AB]

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[Sam Gamgee]

I knew it had to be CNN doing the “fact” check. LOL. May as expect honesty from Satan himself.

[Eleutheria5]

CNN says that experts say it’s all baseless. Well, then. What was all the fuss about?

[Eleutheria5]

Nobody has any experience in election auditing. It doesn’t come up. A firm that specializes in election auditing and only election auditing would go broke very fast.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Mail in ballots are different than in person ballots. Oh CNN must have just forgotten. 😆

[DocRock]

CNN’s experts should have watched the hearing. The ballots in question have an EV32 request form and those have a signature of the person requesting the ballot. When the mail in ballot is counted an EV33 form is produced to match up. Normally there are more EV32s (request) than EV33s. There are 74,000 voted EV33s without EV32s (requests). Doesn’t matter if they were in person or mailed. There is no logical explanation except fraud.

[DocRock]

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[Jonny7797]

yawn

the media playbook is old and worn but is it still effective, not sure.

[The Antiyuppie]

“Fact checks” raise my suspicions.

[The Antiyuppie]

“Stop posting these articles.”

Know your enemy.

[Magnatron]

I read this article yesterday and still don’t know what the hell CNN is trying to say. It seems that they feel if they say it’s baseless, then follow that up with a bunch of circular logic and innuendo, then the conclusion is that the fraud doesn’t exist...

...or something.

[Gene Eric]

Fact Check: CNN is ATT

[TakebackGOP]

We know what they’re saying.