Latest Developments in the Arizona Senate’s GQP Sham ‘Fraudit’ (Updated)

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To begin, the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit” gets the Jordan Klepper treatment at The Daily Show (the fake audit meets the fake news).

Last Friday, Kory Langhofer, the Senate’s craptacular attorney, demanded that the county provide access to its computer routers and passwords to some equipment. In an email to county legal staff, Langhofer threatened that unless the Senate got the materials that day, the Senate will issue subpoenas on Monday “for live testimony from Mr. (Scott) Jarrett (the county’s director of election day and emergency voting) and each of the supervisors personally, so that their positions and rationales can be better explained under oath.”

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors responded with a collective yawn. “Oooh, we’re shaking … not!” They simply ignored the threat.

Now the Arizona Mirror reports that “Krazy Karen” Fann demands county answer audit questions, supervisors say new allegations are lies:

Senate President “Krazy Karen” Fann is demanding that Maricopa County send officials to a special meeting Tuesday to answer lawmakers’ questions about issues related to the ongoing election audit she ordered – “or I’ll hold my breath until I turn blue … you’ll see!” – and the chairman of the board of supervisors responded by calling a special public meeting to rebut the audit team’s claims that he called “lies” and “dangerous.”

Bring a bucket of water with you to melt the wicked witch.

Fann, R-Prescott, sent the letter Wednesday to Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, a fellow Republican, and said the meeting was needed to resolve “serious issues” that auditors claim to have encountered over the course of their work. One of those issues is a new battle between the county board and the Senate over the possession of computer routers.

In her letter, Fann suggests that a subcontractor of the Florida-based firm conducting the audit, Cyber Ninjas, review virtual images of the routers while in the presence of the sheriff’s office.

Fann also wants the supervisors to answer questions about allegations her audit team made. The “fraudit’s” official Twitter account accused county election officials of deleting “a directory full of election databases” from 2020 before turning over equipment to the audit team, claiming, “This is spoliation of evidence!”

The “fraudit’s” official Twitter account also claimed there were other issues, such as discrepancies between official counts and the numbers of ballots in the boxes turned over by the county.

The Board of Supervisors went into an emergency meeting in executive session Thursday evening to discuss the letter. Afterward, Sellers issued a statement saying that it would hold a public meeting Monday to “refute lies and lay out facts about these issues.”

Oooh, a witch trial! Now we’re talkin’ some fun. Bring some popcorn.

“After reviewing the letter with County election and IT experts, I can say the allegations are false and ill-informed,” Sellers said. “Moreover, the claim that our employees deleted election files and destroyed evidence is outrageous, completely baseless and beneath the dignity of the Arizona Senate. I demand an immediate retraction of any public statements made to the news media and spread via Twitter.”

Sellers also blasted Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based cybersecurity firm Fann hired to lead the audit team, saying her contractors aren’t auditors and aren’t certified by the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission.

“It’s clearer by the day: the people hired by the Senate are in way over their heads. This is not funny; this is dangerous,” Sellers said.

Fann and the supervisors have been feuding since December, when she issued subpoenas for ballots, tabulation machines and other election materials so she could conduct an audit of the election. Lawmakers and others who had been promoting false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against former President Donald Trump had been demanding such an audit. The supervisors challenged the subpoenas in court, losing their case in February when a judge ordered them to turn over the materials to the Senate.

The audit, which has been plagued by missteps and damaging revelations about the audit and the people leading it, has been underway at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix since late April.

But wait, there’s more!

The “fraudit” has allegedly been counting just the presidential race and the U.S. Senate race. Now that the QAnon lawsuit seeking to throw out the 2018 and 2020 elections has been summarily tossed out of court, the “fraudit” now wants to count down ballot races as well, which means starting over and extending this farce even longer.

And about those access codes to Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment (proprietary information and a trade secret) that the Cyber Ninja wants? Just as I predicited, Dominion Voting Systems’ lawyers are not amused. I expect them to intervene, or to file their own lawsuit.

Question: And why hasn’t the Department of Justice intervened to stop this shitshow? What is taking so damn long?

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2 thoughts on “Latest Developments in the Arizona Senate’s GQP Sham ‘Fraudit’ (Updated)”

  1. Sorry for the typo. Maybe Fann can open an audit on the 2000 Presidential election. That was REALLY stolen. Maybe reopen the 1948 Truman election. Maybe Strom Thurmond really won. Maybe rent the Mad House on McDowell until the 2024 election, just to be safe.

  2. A complete and utter cluster, you know what. Now Fann can’t find a face saving exit because their is none. Many the Feds dont step in until Fann and Borrelli are in so deep they have become an Indonesian submarine. If I were the Supervisors, I would not show up. Tommy Lee Jones is not coming to get them. Righteous.

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