The article (post) title reads: “Fact check: Arizona audit chief baselessly raises suspicion about 74,000 ballots”. That’s just propaganda, plain and simple. Remove the word “baselessly”, and it’s a good headline.
I agree we need to be careful about reading too much into the excerpted testimony. It always pays to read the full testimony in context. For myself, I heard the comments about the 74,000 vote discrepancy as it was intended - an open question as to why their ballots-out and ballots-in counts don’t align. The testimony was that they had some 74,000 more ballots received than documented as mailed - but that the discrepancy could be attributable to a variety of causes, including clerical errors, poor recordkeeping, or the Cyber Ninjas’ ignorance regarding the process and use of such ballots. Too much was made of the discrepancy, when the real message should have been the intransigence of the county officials when asked directly about the processes.
It has been asked many times - if there is nothing to hide, why is the county spending so much time and effort hiding requested information from the Senate’s auditors?
Of course, that is good advice.
It is why I watched the entire hour or two hearing on Sunday to see for myself what was going on instead of depending on turds like CNN and AP to give it to me.
And I agree-if the damned Maricopa County Officials had simply given a straight honest answer, it would not have been an issue at all.
Which makes me suspicious that it might have even been an elaborately laid trap. They are A-Holes and they are anti-American, but when it comes to underhandedness and subterfuge, they aren’t idiots, that is for sure.
They know how to dissemble and obfuscate with skill.