I have a bad feeling about the outcome. Not that it doesn’t reveal a LOT of fraud, but that the fraud cannot be definitively pinpointed, through obstruction of the AZ election officials, who wouldn’t release a lot of critical information and authorize passwords. At best, the audit will so that there is not enough information to reach a definitive conclusion of what happened. It’s like a crime that everyone knew was committed, but because all evidence was scrubbed, destroyed or withheld, no progress can be made on it.
In audit terminology, the opinion would be a “disclaimer of opinion,” because they felt like the audited entity limited their ability to conduct a thorough audit or they couldn’t get satisfactory explanations for their questions. They may not have been able to decipher the correct nature of some transactions or to secure enough evidence to support good reporting. Auditors that aren’t allowed an opportunity to observe operational procedures or to review particular procedures may feel like they’re not able to express a definite opinion, so they feel a disclaimer is necessary and in order.
“It’s like a crime that everyone knew was committed, but because all evidence was scrubbed, destroyed or withheld, no progress can be made on it.”
That, in and of itself, is cause enough (IMHO) to scrub the whole thing. Alarms bells were going off all over yet practically everyone of import sat on their thumbs going DUH. Lies, fraud, and obfuscation is what it’s been about from the get-go.
That’s not what it sounds like.
This is nonsense. The auditors had all of the ballots in their possession throughout the process. Nobody and nothing “ limited their ability to conduct a thorough audit,”