Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Wednesday said he’d support an audit of his state’s 2020 election results days after a state representative introduced a bill to audit the state’s largest counties. It just so happens almost all of those counties voted for Joe Biden.
Why is this white-collar criminal not in jail? Why does his securities-fraud prosecution take so long?
I recall plenty of recounts of elections, triggered by law. But I recall nothing like this third-party “audit” nonsense – is there any precedent, or is it only a Big Lie phenomenon?
There was the media-sponsored count of Florida votes in 2000, but that wasn’t this exactly.
Paxton: “… it gives us an opportunity to figure out how we want to correct” the fact that Dem votes might actually be counted.
Criminally Indicted Fraudster Endorses Electoral Fraudit of Blue Counties.
Paxton is a treasonous cherry picker, and a felon.
“There’s no reason not to do an audit”
Something someone said about calculating the same numbers over and over again, and still expecting different results each time, might be a very good reason.
It’s over.
If there’s a dead horse to flog, Texas Republicans will find it.
It’s weird how many Republicans want to blow up the electoral college.
I’m hoping that the Federal Government can find a way to prosecute these proponents of fake “audits” and other machinations to undermine our elections for conspiracy against the duly elected government of the United States. Many would claim that this was “political” prosecution, but when you set out to eviscerate democracy, you should not get to defend it as “politics.”
Sure, ignore the red counties, I’m sure that there’s no fraud in a county that’s spread out with low numbers of voters that don’t vote that often.
It’s interesting how afraid Republicans are to audit elections where they won, or won easily…it would be really interesting to do a detailed examination of the election process around the nation to see how it really works, it would open some eyes to see the dichotomy in how minority areas are treated and how lax procedures are in red areas compared to how they demand strict rules in Democratic ones.
Because “over 415,000 people” is not a gerrymandered number intended to apply only to Democratic-leaning counties, just as were the Democrats to promote an audit of counties where “over 20% of marriages are between first cousins,” that would not be intended to apply only to GOP counties.
Heaven forfend!
He’s used every stalling tactic in the books on his felony – from getting the venue changed to a county that’s GOP-controlled and doesn’t want to pay the legal fees, to fighting every ruling. The only relief is going to come from a federal prosecution.
This is such horseshit.
I’m in Az, I know of what I speak.
Starting with my grandfather’s statement that there are two kinds of Republicans: rich ones and dumb ones, I can only conclude that rich Republicans want to make it harder for dumb Republicans to vote because rich Republicans don’t really want a repeat of The Rump, either.
Texas must have a giant surplus of money
Texas was anticipating a budget deficit of about $1 billion as recently as January
Texas has a great electric grid
Heat Wave Has Sparked Another Round Of Grid Problems In Texas : NPR
Texas has money to build a wall
Portions of the existing wall in Texas cost $26.5 million per mile to construct, federal lawmakers have said. The Biden administration has said building the wall cost taxpayers $46 million per mile in some areas along the border.
Texas has great healthcare
Texas ranks last in U.S. health care access study | Texas | thecentersquare.com
Texas has great education
Texas is one of the most uneducated states in the U.S., study says | KXAN Austin
Conclusion It’s sucks to live in Texas
If there were a certified auditor that came in to review processes, etc. that would be one thing – corporations do audits ALL THE TIME. But with trained auditors not “Cyber Ninjas” and other right-wing lunatics.
If a proper audit were done for Harris County, the results would be:
Out in the Open
“I don’t know why we wouldn’t want to give people confidence in our elections, and give them the chance to know for sure that they’ve had an audit, and things are good or they’re bad,” Paxton told talk radio host Chad Hasty in an interview.
Hey, remember when Paxton screamed about this need for “confidence in elections” after Trump’s shockingly improbable win in 2016?
And then, before that, when he wouldn’t shut up about the need to recount Florida votes for the sake of “election integrity” in the wake of Bush v. Gore?
Yeah, me neither.
Well said. And I imagine future historians questioning whether there could ever have really been an audit of an election by something named “Cyber Ninjas.” At least after they declare bankruptcy, they can re-incorporate later to do cartoon work. (Correction: more cartoon work.)
I would proffer that this now calls for a group of States’ AGs horrified by this injustice to gang together and prosecute him in some other venue based on outrage. Paxton established this very precedent, no?