NinjaMan Ken Bennett: a Pima County Audit is “Not Going to Change the Statewide Result”

Ken Bennett does NOT recommend an audit of Pima County’s 2020 election. He says it would NOT provide any more information about how to reform Arizona’s election laws, and would NOT affect the result of the 2020 election.

Ed.: You can find an AI-generated transcript in a Google Doc here, if you would prefer to read the exchange.

I agree with Bennett that an audit of the 2020 Pima County election would not be useful to materially change the outcome of the 2020 election in any way. Nor would it provide more information for any serious-minded effort at legislative reform of our elections laws and procedures.

But an audit in Pima County would be VERY useful for more fundraising by the AZGOP and dark money groups who profited wildly from the Maricopa Fraudit.

It would also be VERY useful for the creation of more disinformation for propaganda efforts to undermine confidence in our elections.

It would also be VERY useful rhetorically for one failed, twice-impeached, defeated President, and some Arizona candidates like Mark ‘Oathkeeper Insurrectionist’ Finchem (See also, aslo), Kari ‘#KraziKari’ Lake and various other Trump lickspittles and wanna-bes running in Republican primaries on the #BigLie.

Fortunately, I suspect that enough Republican members of the AZ Lege are sufficiently embarrassed by the utter shit-shower Karen Fann unleashed in Maricopa, that even if the Lege were called back into special session, there wouldn’t be the votes in the GOP caucus to launch another round of shooting themselves in the feet. They can read polls of the AZ general election electorate…

Even if I’m wrong about that (which I’m not…), the Fraudit conspirators would be facing a legal cage-match-to-the-death with the wholly Democratic Pima County Board of Supervisors and Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly, who would all be more than happy to stand up for their constituents, and their own institutional prerogatives, and litigate the matter into the next century rather than cooperate with more of this fraudulent nonsense, incidentally making themselves national-level Democratic figures and heroes to Democrats everywhere in the process.

In short, hell will freeze over and sell all the ice to Alaska before a Fraudit happens in Pima County.

But ACTUALLY auditing Pima County isn’t really the goal of anyone advocating it, obviously (with the possible exception of Cheato himself…) – beating up on the integrity of our elections and picking a fight with Democrats to impress and rally the #AZGQP base is the point.

But bullshit is free, as they say, so I fully expect Arizona crackpots like Fichem and Lake to continue to demand an audit of Pima County – so long as it is an applause line in any given crowd of rabid Trumpies, that is.

A Pima County fraudit shouldn’t happen and would serve no legitimate purpose. And even ‘Senate Audit Liaison’ Ken Bennett agrees with that. And Bennett would serve his Party’s long-term interests by loudly and frequently saying so.

Ed.: This article is part of a series on Ken Bennett’s post-Fraudit activities and statements. Please consider reading the others, starting with “Bennett’s Bottom Line: No Evidence Supports Trump’s Lie That He Won AZ“.