Arizona Audit’s Fundraising Docs Are Public Records, Judge Says | Talking Points Memo

An Arizona judge on Thursday denied Republican senators’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit seeking records on the financial backers and other aspects of the sham “audit” of the 2020 elections in Maricopa County. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1381415
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Now use those documents to sue for the money that’s going to have to be spent on new machines. The taxpayers didn’t ask for this ‘fraudit’, but now they’re going to have to foot the bill for its inconclusive results?? No, sirree… That money should come out of all of the pockets of the dopes that put this nonsense forward and are still stupid enough to insist they have evidence but can’t produce it.

Sue the bastards. And if it puts Ninja out of business, so be it.

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Kemp said Thursday that records in those contractors’ possession were subject to Arizona’s public records law where they had a “substantial nexus” with a government agency’s activities. He rejected the argument that Cyber Ninjas and other private vendors working on the audit were exempt from public records laws. Allowing the Senate to circumvent public records law by retaining private companies would be “an absurd result,” he said.

Excellent. Get those suckers.

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These disclosures are clearly in the public interest, and are only the beginning. These “auditors” are going to be answering questions under oath, at depositions as part of lawsuits and/or at government hearings. The sooner they are led to understand these facts of life in our open society, the sooner they are likely to fold their tents and go home.

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”Perhaps the largest source of fundraising has been ex-Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne’s group The America Project, which fundraised through a website called Fund The Audit. Logan recently appeared in a documentary starring Byrne, which was given access to the audit’s counting floor and ballot boxes.”

How many state – and federal – laws are being violated on a daily basis by this clown car pileup?

If these brownshirts are the engaged in criminal acts, then heads need to roll, stat!

It’s a sh-tshow, inside a trainwreck, wrapped in a dumpster fire.

(h/t Churchill)

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Over-stocked, but under-endowed.

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OT: good to see you posting this morning. The flooding news out of Germany is pretty sobering.

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Yep, and now we know why we kept having sluggish internet connections throughout the day. :scream:

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I kinda like this judge. He got his J.D. from Univ. of Wisconsin, and was first appointed by Janet Napolitano in 2005, when she was Gov. of Arizona.

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"Follow the money."

That age old advice never, ever gets old, it works every time.

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THANK GOD for the remaining honest, democracy-loving judges.

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Much like the “Bend and Snap”

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Stay safe and dry!

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"Dry? Nein! Feir!

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You mean they didn’t have to disclose their backers before they started dicking around with the ballots?

That’s the concept of time for you. If you can get it over the line, nobody gets to say anything.

Quod erat sum: Trump is tearing the fabric of time.

With his giant ass.

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I was referring to the flooding in Germany.

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I was doing only the punchline of my favorite German joke.
I often go right to the punchline and skip the joke.
It can lead to confusion but I gotta be me.

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I hope in this case restitution is coupled with retribution.

Not sure if the names of all who have been there handling ballots can be revealed, but I think they should. If nothing more than have they been paid, and if so has the proper hiring paperwork been filled out, with applicable withholdings been withheld. (yes I like the small details)

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Ha ha.

(just laughing at the klowns)

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Ah! Thanks for 'splaining!

No groken zee Deutsch.

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