Volunteer observers of the GOP’s shady “audit” of Maricopa County, Arizona’s 2020 election results are being required to sign non-disclosure agreements, local station ABC 15 reported Tuesday night.
So, not only do the reactionaries want to control who recounts the vote, they also want to control whoever witnesses it.
Totally transparent, until you get to the part the reactionaries want to make opaque: the actual process of counting.
What could be untrustworthy about that?
The entire phony recount is intended to mollify Trump and the hardcore dishonest and unpatriotic scum who run the party. It won’t have any relevance to anyone else, other than as yet another black mark on the credibility of the GQP and, sadly, as bait to violent nuts to try another putsch.
The NDA requirement seems about as reasonable as the AZ Republican legislature requiring the “audit” (after counts, recounts, and certification by the Republican governor), the pro-Trump group called Cyber Ninjas conducting it, the process by which it’s being done, and the totally fabricated reasons for the entire thing.
Cyber Ninjas has fought in court to keep information about the audit private. A judge’s order last week forced the company to produce documents outlining its policies and practices for the review.
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Do they really need all this absurdity to get to the official result saying, “The orange guy totally won, and we totally want to release the evidence but we can’t because it would cause dangerous Antifa riots”?