Commenting on Arizona's phony election "audit" conducted by Trumpie and Q-Anon conspiracy theorist Doug Logan, the author declared certainty that the whole thing was a fraudulent, phony scam and that it would, predictably, find the "massive voter fraud" in Maricopa County's ballots that Donald Trump has been so desperately looking for, but has failed to find anywhere, including in his own justice department investigations, state recounts and multiple Republican led audits that have cost taxpayers millions of wasted dollars.
I was wrong. 😄
What the Cyber Ninjas found, coming out today in a long anticipated, long awaited, much delayed report that had to be forced out of them by the courts (which should have provided a clue as to their contents), was that the Maricopa County vote totals were off, by a little over 300 votes...in President Biden's favor. This after months of comic relief that included the conspiracy theorist-owner, Doug Logan, coming down with a serious case of COVID-19, multiple requests for help in understanding how machines operated, how to use computer programs, how to login to data bases, how to read data bases, and in effect, like a group of kindergartners given instructions who have to keep coming back to the teacher because they can't remember all of it at once.
Oh, and wasting $150,000 of the taxpayer's money, and somewhere north of $6 million from Trumpie supporters and contributors. I tend to think that this wasn't really about the ballots, it was about the money. Logan walks away, after paying those who worked for him next to nothing, with millions, bilked from Trumpies. 😆
I still don't trust their results. This was not a qualified or certified auditor and it wasn't a professional audit. Maricopa County's two other audits, and Arizona's recount, are trustworthy figures. And while it's funny that these people discovered the count was off, and in Biden's favor, I doubt their numbers are accurate. With all the evidence that has been produced surrounding Trump's attempts to subvert the constitution and steal the election himself, I have little doubt that attempts by Trumpies and the Trump campaign were made in Arizona, and in other battleground states where it was close, to try and cheat, covering them with the "massive voter fraud" accusations leveled at Democrats. I'd like to see a real audit of North Carolina's votes. Or Ohio.
The Big Lie Will Keep Going
This won't stop the big lie. But it will put a big dent in it. And I think it will help make it more of a political liability than it already has been. It gives ammunition to anyone running against a conspiracy theorist Republican to accuse them of being a liar. It will help fundraising for candidates running against Big Liars. It will tip some close elections in favor of Democrats and it will provide support in other places, Pennsylvania, for example, where Republicans want to keep taking out and playing with ballots.
I mean, if a Trumpie conspiracy theorist could not find a deceitful and dishonest enough pathway to evidence of cheating in an election, who can? Stop me if you think I'm having too much fun with this.
Arizona Democrats Need to Start a Recall Against Karen Fann
Karen Fann is the senate president who tried to make this look like it was something legitimate and real. Her insistence on pushing this through even though there were two legitimate audits that both showed identical results, and that there was no evidence at all supporting the need to waste money on a third, cost the taxpayers of Arizona a lot more than the $150,000 they gave to this failed effort. The Cyber Ninjas, unlike the previous auditors, got into access codes and login information for countless voting and counting machines that will now have to be replaced by Maricopa County. The taxpayers should force her to pay for that out of her own pocket.
And I think there's enough ammunition here for a recall. She represents a pretty well gerrymandered district, but recalls, especially when there's motivation, tend to get more opposition out than normal. A wasteful Republican who already looks and acts like she doesn't have a clue is a good target for a recall effort, especially after a huge botch like this that got a lot of attention. Getting her out flips the balance of the senate and would put a stop to a lot of state legislative shenanigans that have been plaguing the Arizona legislature over the past two or three decades.
She needs to be gone. In all honesty, any other senator who supported and voted for this needs to be gone. They have shown a measure of incompetence that disqualifies them from serving in public office. They are agenda driven, not representatives of the people. But getting rid of Fann would correct the senate's problem in pretty short order. Are there any Arizona Democrats who are up for this?
This is Still Not Right
Something is wrong with a system that allowed something like this to happen in the first place. A legislative body doesn't have any checks and balances on it when it pushes forward like this, with no evidence and simplistic ignoring the facts. Leaders are supposed to be reasonably intelligent representatives of all the people, not robots that do the bidding of party leadership without giving a thought to those whom they represent. There had to have been a campaign in which Fann had to run to get elected. Did she have to speak anywhere or make a public appearance? And if that was the case, how in the world did she convince enough people to elect her?
Something is really wrong when you can draw legislative boundaries around enough people who elect legislators like this. It happens in every state. It's illegal, but no one ever does anything about it because the authority never winds up in the hands of people who will be accountable.
But that's a topic for a whole different discussion.
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