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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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To: Sebator

Doesn’t matter how old it is. It shows that the narrative the AP is pushing that it is a partisan audit is false. Now what will come of it is yet to be seen.


61 posted on 07/18/2021 1:29:20 AM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: shanover
I remember the NY Slimes recounted Florida at least ten times in 2000.

And don't forget the "election" of Al Franken in Minnesota.

It was recounted, like five times, until they got the result they wanted. Then, they immediately stopped the recounting.

62 posted on 07/18/2021 1:58:14 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Ali Swenson who is very young and cute in a big nose way cub for the New York Times does absolutely nothing but refute any and all Trump or GOPe claims about the election or the democrats

Seriously....this is all she does in her job and never offers any evidence

She just say this or that particular claim is a falsehood

I assume this stuff is fed her and the Schulzberger red diaper babies tell her to byline it....


63 posted on 07/18/2021 2:00:53 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it's about them )
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To: shanover

This AP story is circulating all over the left wing sites.

It is now “settled science” that the auditors are lying and that the election in Arizona was free of any fraud.


64 posted on 07/18/2021 3:06:40 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: qaz123

What shall we call AP? America’s Pravda?


65 posted on 07/18/2021 3:14:18 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: qaz123
"How does the AP know it’s false."

It's obviously false because a Democrat said so. To the AP, whatever any Democrat says, ever, is always true, and what ever a Republican says is almost always false, except for President Trump. Whatever President Trump says is ALWAYS false.

66 posted on 07/18/2021 3:40:12 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The experienced and learned author of this tripe:

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67 posted on 07/18/2021 3:51:17 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach onre)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Maricopa County officials tweeted later Friday that they calculated the true number of mail-in ballots requested and returned in November’s election. According to that count, nearly 450,000 more mail-in ballots were requested than returned.

If this was true, you would think it would be trumpeted loud, early, and far and wide. Instead, you don't hear a peep of it. Things that make you go hmmmm . . . .

68 posted on 07/18/2021 3:51:48 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. NO, RECAPTCHA, I'M NOT A ROBOT!!! DIE YOU TIME WASTING SCUM.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Well, I managed to get a wealth of details out of the article before stopping at the term “false claims.”

Apparently, according to the officials cited, the files used by Cyber Ninjas were themselves an incomplete account of all the absentee ballots.

If it turns out there was no widespread fraud in AZ, then I will be relieved, because that would merely mean AZ made a lousy choice in the election.


69 posted on 07/18/2021 3:58:44 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Although it is AZ, 74K ballots would fit neatly into 4 or 5 suitcases.
But, since we don’t have video of that in the AZ counting...


70 posted on 07/18/2021 4:14:42 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriots, stop looking at the politicians as enemies. Look at the complicit Legacy Media.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE
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.

Sadly, a lot of FR 'debate' is of this nature.

71 posted on 07/18/2021 4:25:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rlmorel

It appears that voting machines are going to use block-chain technology in the future.


72 posted on 07/18/2021 4:33:04 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Jvette

That’s only 7400 a day.

If you work a twelve hour day it is 616 an hour.

How long does it take a person to process these requests?

Know this and we’ll know how many people were involved.

Shouldn’t be too hard to interview them...


73 posted on 07/18/2021 4:36:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: thecodont

It’s the first one to spill the beans that gets a lesser sentence.


74 posted on 07/18/2021 4:38:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: AZJeep
Since most “mainstream” news just reprint and follow the agencies,...

Let the mainstream grow a pair and their OWN 'investigating'!

75 posted on 07/18/2021 4:41:16 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rlmorel

According to AP EV32 lists absentee ballots sent 10 days before election, EV 33 lists absentee ballots recieved 10 days before election. The EV’s miss absentee ballots given out at polling places that are picked up at polling places etc. The article doesn’t address the 18,000 votes from people no longer registered to vote who did.


76 posted on 07/18/2021 4:41:43 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our County )
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To: wardaddy

-—Ali Swenson who is very young and cute in a big nose way -—

I just HAD to look!!

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ali+Swenson&iax=images&ia=images


77 posted on 07/18/2021 4:43:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: nesnah

I shudda read ahead!


78 posted on 07/18/2021 4:44:01 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: thecodont

Characterizing the facts the way you want them to be understood is the gaslighting that left claims the people questiong election are doing.


79 posted on 07/18/2021 4:53:28 AM PDT by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.)
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To: Jvette; rlmorel
The trouble is that there should be an accurate accounting of all votes requested, cast, duplicated, discarded, or destroyed and there doesn’t seem to be.

I agree. What I said in the previous reply admittedly would be an incomplete refutation. AZ should be able to provide proof of all 74,000 of those "extra" ballots, assuming that proof didn't get deleted per rlmorel's comment in #35.

80 posted on 07/18/2021 5:10:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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