‘Sharpiegate’ Redux: Arizona Auditors Preview Red Meat In Another Bizarre Hearing | Talking Points Memo

First and foremost, the people running the shambolic “audit” of Maricopa County, Arizona’s 2020 election results want you to know, they’re doing a great job. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1381358
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Go sell crazy somewhere else, we’re full up here!

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Great line.

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How is this still a thing?

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And yet, Biden is still President. The Trump “Organization” is eating its own. And the taxpayers of Arizona (the majority of whom, according to previous audits, did not vote for Trump) are being force to line the pockets of Big Lie loons who (I’m pretty sure) don’t hail from Arizona.

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All the $$ the AZ Qpublicans are raking in will end up being used to hire lawyers in their coming trials.

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Pt Barnum would be proud.

Next up, the hunting of the kirilian effect residue to explain the negative mojo forcing the voter to mark the wrong candidate. There is an aura about the ballot with perceptible dark energy corrupting the bio energy fields around it. The older auditors are suffering gall stones and creaking knees when they simply handle the forms.

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That bit of clarity hasn’t gone over well with Trump’s cultists. On Wednesday of this week, Roe resigned as executive director of the Michigan Republican Party after a sustained campaign by pro-Trump activists, according to the Detroit Free Press . Roe, who was hired in February, declined to say why he stepped down, but the reasons were clear enough. Trumpers demand lies to justify their distorted view of the world—anyone who doesn’t comply is exiled.

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so as I read , I said “Who the Hell is Kari Lake ?” then shrugged and thought must be some village idiot
… turns out I was right …

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Maricopa County will replace the voting machines turned over to the faux auditors. It will cost county taxpayers three million dollars.
Arizona County to Replace Voting Machines Taken in Needless Election Audit (businessinsider.com)

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It sounds less reliable than determining voter intent on butterfly ballots or on ballots with hanging chads.
The reactionaries objected to that but are, somehow, OK with this. Go figure.

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They should charge the costs to Ninja. But I’m sure Ninja will fold, declare bankruptcy and leave the taxpayers holding the bag.

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With his legal troubles still looming over him, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz’s campaign paid $25,000 last month to a law firm that represented convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Mexican drug lord El Chapo and former mobsters, according to his most recent campaign finance report.

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The jokes just write themselves.

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And Ivanka and her voting machines will not be in the running.

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As a long time Arizona resident I find the whole “Fraudit” insulting at an indescribable epic level
My state’s senate handed over election machinery and ballots to fucking carpetbaggers from Florida who had not the first clue how to count ballots or find if any were not correct.
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In other news…
Washington, DC (CNN)Sen. Joe Manchin, a key vote in the effort to pass federal voting rights legislation, on Thursday said he and a group of Texas House Democrats, who have fled their state in an effort to block restrictive voting bills, have come to a “total agreement” on what they want, which is “basically to protect voting rights.”
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Isn’t that ducky? FUCKING DISCUSSING VOTING RIGHTS… (POUNDS HEAD ON DESK) SHOULD NOT EVEN BE AN ISSUE IN OUR DEMOCRACY!!! (see several amendments to the Constitution). If someone is 18 or older, not currently a convicted felon, they ought to be able to vote. Bills and laws restricting when, where and how someone can vote show intent to defraud the voters on order to toss their vote … as my mom used to say… “On account of because”.
This isn’t the America I was taught to believe in.

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‘Unprecedented’…as a synonym for “shit sane people would never ever do”.

As for ‘kinematic artifact detection’, I’d recommend they check for same on the heads of the auditors, perhaps as an explanation for their behavior vis a vis recent brain trauma.

What’s next? The requirement for basic literacy presented an anti-Republican bias?!

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How is this show still on the air? How is this still a thing? It’s an unfunny comedy that no one but diehards are still watching. Cancel it!

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The Arizona Senate has already spent millions of state taxpayer dollars on this fraudit. And that’s aside from letting fucking out of state carpetbaggers access to our voting machines and materials. Now we hafta junk those machines and buy new ones at state (read taxpayer) expense. Isn’t that just lovely?

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Big Lie Loons could be a killer band name!

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