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FACT FOCUS: A false narrative of 74K extra votes in Arizona
apnews.com ^ | July 17, 2021 | ALI SWENSON

Posted on 07/17/2021 9:05:02 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Cyber Ninjas, the cybersecurity consulting firm hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to oversee a partisan review of the 2020 election, on Thursday pushed a false narrative that Maricopa County received thousands of mail-in ballots that had no record of being sent out to voters.

The firm’s CEO Doug Logan used the baseless claim to urge legislators to subpoena more records and canvass voters at home, grasping for evidence of fraud even as a hand count of a statistical sample of ballots and two post-election audits showed no proof of wrongdoing in Maricopa County’s election.

The false claim has reverberated online in the day since Logan’s comments, parroted by lawmakers and Republican commentators including Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert and former President Donald Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Georgia; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: aliswenson; arizona; audit; az; biden; electionfraud; fakenews; fraud; gaslighting; maga; media; nevertrumper; rinopost; spin; stopthesteal; tds; vote; voterfraud; xiden
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1 posted on 07/17/2021 9:05:02 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How does the AP know it’s false.

Amazing how the Lefts propaganda machine knows to go into overdrive when needed.


2 posted on 07/17/2021 9:07:57 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The AP’s reporting is actually pretty accurate these days, *if* you take most of what they say and invert it.


3 posted on 07/17/2021 9:08:39 PM PDT by shaven_llama
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Love how they always refer to claims as false before they’ve been investigated, lest we forget the narrative and dare to have an independent thought. Smells of desperation, which is obvious to us, but I can’t believe they don’t see that themselves.


4 posted on 07/17/2021 9:09:08 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

That’s their lie, and they’re sticking to it.


5 posted on 07/17/2021 9:10:02 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAGOr)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“false narrative”
“baseless claim”
“parroted”

Editorial language.


6 posted on 07/17/2021 9:10:25 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Berlin_Freeper; Liz; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; Kaslin

So, you see, I am reading this “news article” ... And FAIL TO SEE WHERE IT REFUTES THE CLAIM.

The article only states the claim is false.

However, 74,000 more absentee (mail-in) ballots were received, accepted and counted than were requested by registered Maricopa County voters. Biden only won Arizona by 12,000 votes. How many of these fake 74,000 pieces of paper were duplicated as Biden “ballots”?


7 posted on 07/17/2021 9:10:45 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Being a false narrative, I assume they are more than happy to publish the sh*t out of it.


8 posted on 07/17/2021 9:12:47 PM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The AP hired Obi-Wan as editor.


9 posted on 07/17/2021 9:12:56 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The standard lies and propaganda from American Pravda.

They’re clearly worried. First massive fraud is uncovered in Fulton County and now in Maricopa County.


10 posted on 07/17/2021 9:13:01 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: thecodont

Forgot “partisan review”


11 posted on 07/17/2021 9:15:14 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How do they know it’s a “false claim”?


12 posted on 07/17/2021 9:15:53 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The apnews needs to show it is false.


13 posted on 07/17/2021 9:16:17 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

this is the FakeNewsMSM narrative, and they intend sticking with it. never mind that they’ve all ignored Arizona until now.


14 posted on 07/17/2021 9:16:44 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: goodnesswins

It’s not the sort of thing I would do or recommend, but I’ve heard that people create “drinking games” and take a shot or a chug every time they hear one of these catchphrases.

Or you could create a Bingo game. Another idea.


15 posted on 07/17/2021 9:17:04 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: MAGAthon
No biggy, so a few votes got botched.


16 posted on 07/17/2021 9:19:00 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This isn’t reporting. This is an opinion piece and more propaganda by the AP. They and the rest of their MSM ilk certainly didn’t question the fake dossier and the fraudulent investigation into so called Russian collusion by the Trump Administration.


17 posted on 07/17/2021 9:21:14 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Berlin_Freeper

> “Cyber Ninjas, the cybersecurity consulting firm hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to oversee a partisan review of the 2020 election, on Thursday pushed a false narrative that Maricopa County received thousands of mail-in ballots that had no record of being sent out to voters.”

By ALI SWENSON.

Well then, Cyber Ninjas pushed a “false narrative” and I anxiously read more to see the ace reporting expected from Swenson that would reveal a furtherance of the BIG LIE that so many in corporate media are saying these atrocious audits are concocting.

But I didn’t see it.

Did anyone here see Swenson get the goods on the AZ audit?


18 posted on 07/17/2021 9:22:27 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: goodnesswins

fact check
partisan review
false narrative
baseless claim
grasping for evidence
showed no proof
false claim has reverberated
parroted
refused to answer questions [formerly “not available for comment”]
spread conspiracy theories
false claims of fraud
experts in election administration [who?]
alternate reality
misinformation
identify and reduce the circulation of false stories


19 posted on 07/17/2021 9:23:15 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Berlin_Freeper

AP = Always Pathetic


20 posted on 07/17/2021 9:32:04 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President…)
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