The Arizona ballot recount is really getting ridiculous. There is a conspiracy theory that 40,000 forged ballots were flown in from Asia. Now they're checking the ballots to see if any contain bamboo fibers.
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The Arizona ballot recount is really getting ridiculous. There is a conspiracy theory that 40,000 forged ballots were flown in from Asia. Now they're checking the ballots to see if any contain bamboo fibers.
In the 2020 Presidential election, Joe Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes and he won Maricopa County – which includes Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe and Scottsdale – by 45,109 votes. Arizona Senate Retrumplicans, who believe Trump's lies about "widespread voter fraud" and a "rigged" and "stolen" election, are having all of Maricopa County's votes recounted, even though the recount will not change anything. The county results were certified by the Board of Supervisors and the statewide results were certified by Retrumplican Governor Doug Ducey. Paul Boyer supported the recount. He's now having second thoughts. Will wonders never cease!
Arizona GOP Senator now regrets recount: 'It makes us look like idiots'
“I didn’t think it would be this ridiculous. It’s embarrassing to be a state Senator at this point,” Paul Boyer said of partisan recount.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizo...b05bee44cdcf0f
Only 12% of the ballots have been checked. The recount may not be finished until July. As you say, it will not change anything. It is a waste of time and money.
Well, Liz Cheney has been ousted as House Republican Conference chair for daring to speak the truth: Donald Trump lost the 2020 Presidential election. Trump and a huge majority of Retrumplicans continue to insist that Trump won the election but it was "stolen" from him. That is known as "The Big Lie." Today, House Retrumplican minority leader Kevin McCarthy lied about The Big Lie. He said, "I don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the Presidential election. I think that is all over with." Yeah, but let's oust Liz Cheney for speaking out against The Big Lie.
"We must speak the truth," Cheney declared. "Our election was not stolen. And America has not failed. Every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy. This is not about policy. This is not about partisanship. This is about our duty as Americans. Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former President's crusade to undermine our democracy."
The GOP just handed Liz Cheney a megaphone
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/12/polit...one/index.html
Democrats are already sending fundraising emails calling the Republican party "the party of lies" for siding with Trump and condemning Cheney for speaking the truth.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki calls it 'disturbing' to see Liz Cheney 'attacked for simply speaking the truth'
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/white-...telling-truth/
What is more disturbing is that so many millions of Retrumplicans accept Donald Trump's lies as the truth.
Liz Cheney told NBC's Savannah Guthrie, "You've watched over the course of the last several months the former President get more aggressive, more vocal, pushing the lie” that he won the 2020 Presidential election and it was "stolen" from him. II Thessalonians chapter 2 says the Day of the Lord will not come until there is a "rebellion" and the "man of lawlessness" is revealed. He will "exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God." He will "deceive" people and they will "believe the lie." Gee, that sounds just like that "former President."
'It's a scary thing': Cheney expresses dismay after House GOP ousts her from leadership.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...e-gop-n1267193
Delusional Donald continues to get worse. The men in the white coats need to get him and put him in a padded cell.
Republican Arizona election official says Trump is 'unhinged'
The Associated Press, May 16 2021 5:17 AM
The Republican who now leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former President Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer on Saturday called a Trump statement accusing the county of deleting an elections database “unhinged” and called on other Republicans to stop the unfounded accusations. “We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country,” Richer tweeted.
Trump's statement said, in part, that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED! This is illegal and the Arizona State Senate, who is leading the Forensic Audit, is up in arms.” Richer and the board say that statement is just plain wrong. In recent days, both he and the board have begun aggressively pushing back at what they see as continuing falsehoods from Republicans who question Trump's loss.
https://www.aol.com/news/republican-...121706860.html
Here is further proof that the Retrumplican party has no room for anyone who refuses to believe "The Big Lie" that Trump won the 2020 Presidential election but the victory was "stolen" from him.
Georgia's GOP lieutenant governor won't seek reelection amid election backlash
The Hill, May 17 2021 1:12 PM ET
Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan said today he will not seek reelection in 2022, foregoing what was expected to be a bruising primary campaign due to his criticism of former President Trump. Even before his announcement, Duncan appeared unlikely to take up a reelection bid. He has found himself on the receiving end of Trump’s ire after rebuking the former President’s false claims of a rigged election, infuriating many Georgia Republicans who remain loyal to Trump.
In a statement, Duncan addressed the tension within the GOP, describing the party as being at a crossroads in the wake of Trump’s Presidency. He said he would not seek reelection next year and would instead focus on “healing and rebuilding a Republican Party that is damaged but not destroyed.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...ction-backlash
Two bipartisan audits of Maricopa County's ballots found no problems – but that didn't satisfy Arizona's Retrumplicans, who still refuse to believe Joe Biden won the state in the 2020 Presidential election and are conducting a third audit. The county's Recorder (a Republican) is calling for an end to the audit. The county's Board of Supervisors (four Republicans and a Democrat) is denouncing the audit as a "spectacle that is harming all of us."
Arizona GOP election official calls for an end to audit: 'Stop giving space for lies'
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/ar...073028151.html
The 2020 Presidential election was six and a half months ago and Retrumplicans still can't accept the reality that their idol, Donald Trump, lost to Joe Biden. They still insist there was widespread voter fraud. Spoiler alert: There wasn't.
Judge allows self-described anti-fraud group to review Georgia ballots
Reuters, May 21 2021 5:05 PM PDT
A Georgia judge today ordered Atlanta's Fulton County to unseal more than 145,000 absentee ballots cast during the November 2020 election, allowing self-described election integrity activists to evaluate the legitimacy of the ballots. Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero, who is overseeing the case, ruled that Fulton County must unseal the ballots so the petitioners can inspect and scan them, not merely look at copies. The order paves the way for a second review of ballots by private groups who claim without evidence that widespread voting fraud in populous cities helped Joe Biden unfairly defeat then-President Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/business/leg...ts-2021-05-21/
Replacing 394 vote tabulators could cost Maricopa County taxpayers several million dollars. I'm sure when they go to vote in 2022 and 2024, they will remember how the Retrumplicans wasted time and wasted money by conducting a pointless audit of ballots.The county results were certified by the Board of Supervisors and the statewide results were certified by Republican Governor Doug Ducey – and even if Trump had won Arizona (which he didn't), Joe Biden would still be President.
Maricopa County will need new voting machines after GOP's audit, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs says
The machines must be replaced because election officials don't know what was done to them by the Republican auditors, she said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...gop-s-n1268090
Two of the most notorious Congresional Retrumplicans visited Maricopa County to show "solidarity" with the pointless, unnecessary audit of ballots and to spread The Big Lie that Trump won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and the 2020 Presidential election. Trump lost – but Retrumplicans know they will incur Trump's wrath if they don't accept his Big Lie. In the Retrumplican party, the party of lies, Donald Trump is of supreme importance and the truth does not matter. Not in the slightest.
Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene rally in Maricopa County to keep 'big lie' going
https://www.aol.com/news/reps-matt-g...154601567.html
Before he left office, Donald Trump vowed to devote "150%" of his energy to proving he won the 2020 Presidential election and it was "stolen" from him. First, Donald, the most you can give is 100% – and second, you lost the election. Delusional Donald will never admit that, though, nor will his blindly loyal supporters who believe his lies or the Congressional Retrumplicans who believe his lies. Thus, we have audits, audits and more audits.
Arizona and Georgia audits move forward as Republicans continue to push election fraud lies
CNN, May 24 2021 5:43 PM ET
A Republican-ordered audit of the 2.1 million votes cast last year in Arizona's Maricopa County resumed today amid the escalating intra-party fight between state Senators who sought the audit and county officials who have called it a sham. Meanwhile, in Georgia's Fulton County, another audit is set to move forward after a judge on Friday green-lit the unsealing of 147,000 mail-in ballots cast there in the 2020 election. It follows three audits, including a hand recount, that Georgia conducted last year.
The audits are a continuation of Republicans' search for justification for former President Donald Trump's lies that widespread fraud helped President Joe Biden defeat him in the 2020 election, a victory that included narrow Democratic wins in Arizona and Georgia. Trump's falsehoods have been embraced by a swath of GOP primary voters and by party officials eager to placate the former President and his supporters. Republican state lawmakers have introduced hundreds of bills across the nation this year that would make voting more difficult – and many of those bills have advanced or already been signed into law in states where Republicans control both the legislature and the Governor's office, including Georgia, Florida, Arizona and Texas.
Audits have yet to uncover any wrongdoing and cannot change the election's results months after votes were certified, the Electoral College voted and Biden was inaugurated.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/24/polit...its/index.html
We all know the expression, "Old soldiers never die. They just fade away." Well, thanks to the Retrumplicans, we have a new expression: "Old Presidential elections never die. They just keep getting audited.....and audited.....and audited....."
It's not just Arizona: Push to review 2020 ballots spreads
People who believe debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election are pushing for audits of ballots and voting machines in an increasing number of states.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics...allots-spreads
Doug Logan, founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Cyber Ninjas, helped spread Donald Trump's lies about "widespread election fraud" – and his company is leading the recount of the 2,089,563 votes cast in Maricopa County in the 2020 Presidential election. The recount is now 50% completed. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said the vote counters are "not going to produce a report that is valid. They don’t know what they’re doing." What they're doing is wasting time and money conducting a third – third! – audit of ballots, an audit which will not change anything. The results were certified by the county Board of Supervisors and the statewide results were certified by Retrumplican Governor Doug Ducey. Trump lost. Biden won. Get over it, Retrumplicans!
Arizona Secretary of State alleges procedure errors at audit
The Hill, June 2 2021 2:04 PM EDT
Observers working for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs are keeping tabs on a mounting number of security flaws and procedural violations committed by ballot counters hired by the Republican-controlled state Senate to conduct an audit of votes cast in Maricopa County last year. In notes maintained over the past week, the observers noted confidential documents left in the open, a security gate that was left unlocked for several days and, at one point, a software update that was so riddled with errors and bugs that Cyber Ninjas, the cybersecurity company overseeing the audit, was forced to roll back to an earlier edition.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...rrors-at-audit
CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza states the obvious.
Analysis: Donald Trump is getting worse
Trump is more obsessed than ever with 2020 election and is brushing off allies who are telling him to move on.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/03/polit...aud/index.html
During the Trump administration, the Department of Justice existed not to serve the United States of America but to serve Donald Trump. Here is further proof – and how sad this is.
Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows pressed Justice Dept. to Investigate election fraud claims
Emails show the increasingly urgent efforts by President Trump and his allies during his last days in office to find some way to undermine, or even nullify, the election results.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/u...-election.html
Donald Trump continues to rule the Retrumplican party with an iron grip – and his blindly loyal supporters continue to believe The Big Lie that he won the 2020 Presidential election and the victory was "stolen" from him. How sad – and how pathetic.
Kemp booed and Raffensperger censured at Georgia GOP convention
CNN, Jun 5 2021 8:55 PM ET
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp was booed and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was censured at the Georgia GOP convention today, demonstrating former President Donald Trump's hold over members of the Georgia Republican Party. The reaction from members of the Georgia GOP comes months after both Kemp and Raffensperger refused to help the former President overturn the election results after his loss to Joe Biden. Trump has endorsed one of Raffensperger's primary opponents, GOP Representative Jody Hice, who has embraced the ex-President's falsehoods about the election.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/05/polit...ion/index.html
Donald Trump becomes more deranged, more demented and more delusional with every passing day. Somewhere a padded cell is waiting.
Trump dwells on 2020 during North Carolina event aimed at helping Republicans in 2022
CNN, Jun 5 2021 11:15 PM ET
Former President Donald Trump today dashed the hopes of Republicans who spent the weeks leading up to his public re-emergence encouraging him to keep his focus on policy and Democratic shortcomings, rather than re-litigating his 2020 election loss once again. In an 85-minute speech to North Carolina Republicans gathered for their annual state convention, Trump baselessly claimed that his defeat by Joe Biden last November was "the crime of the century" and likened the 2020 Presidential contest to a "third-world" election. "Remember," Trump told the crowd after repeating numerous falsehoods about widespread election fraud, "I am not the one who is trying to undermine American democracy. I am the one who is trying to save it."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/05/polit...ech/index.html