The recount of Maricopa County, Arizona’s 2.1 million ballots includes an analysis of whether there is any bamboo fibers in the ballot paper, an audit leader said Wednesday. The official said that the auditors were seeking to vet a wild claim that 40,000 counterfeit ballots were shipped in from Asia.
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The recount of Maricopa County, Arizona’s 2.1 million ballots includes an analysis of whether the ballots have any bamboo fibers, an audit leader said Wednesday. The official said that the auditors were seeking to vet a wild claim that 40,000 counterfeit ballots were shipped in from Asia.
The brits have an expression for this: full starkers, as in stark raving mad.
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A new specialized group of auditors has been brought in to assist the Cyber Ninjas team.

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Fools. They should be looking for rice paper ballots.
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What gets me is that they should’ve kept quiet about this or gave a non answer.
It isn’t valid n giving it air means that they’re looking at lawsuits from named parties.
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Wouldn’t a reliable test for purposes of determining a paper’s composition require that it be damaged or mutilated to obtain a sample?
Or do they haz a Binford Bamboomagnatron Detector that will determine their desired results?
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Who’s been named? The party that printed the ballots?
I have to think there’s a money angle here, again. Spread crazyass rumor on the interwebs, wait for the qanoners to pick it up, then announce you’re “officially” looking into crazyass rumor and you, YOU can help by donating here.
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See if it passes the sniff test from the aforementioned panel of experts:

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I think they’ve been bamboozled…
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No one at the moment, but because it’s Trump and OAN, they’ll formerly accuse someone.
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Hey, you got your ignorant xenophobia in my crackpot conspiracy theory!
NOOOO, YOU got your crackpot conspiracy theory in my ignorant xenophobia!
Mmmm…they sure do go well together, don’t they?
Like fucking South Korea or any other Asian country doesn’t make standard wood-pulp paper! Sweet mother of god are these people ignorant fuckwits.
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Un-gaslighting is the highest form of gaslighting
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Probably requires a strong burst of energy to get to a flash point.
Truly a job for the Jewish Space Laser.
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These people are idiots. Can you tell your iPhone is made in China by the bamboo fibres?
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Coincidence that bamboo grows in Arizona?
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You know, having placed my mother in a nursing home relatively recently, I’m wondering if we don’t need a ‘national nursing home’ initiative to care for older, resentful white Republicans in their cognitively declining years.
If we can land a probe on the Sun, we can do anything.
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