Politico reports, Arizona ballot audit shows signs of backfiring on GOP: When Arizona Senate Republicans first pushed for a partisan audit of the 2020 presidential ballots cast in the Phoenix metropolitan area, they argued that they needed to know if any irregularities or fraud caused President Trump to lose this rapidly evolving swing state. But … Read more
The Sedition Caucus in the Arizona House voted Friday to require that students be exposed to stories of people who fled communism, as part of a curriculum to prepare them to be “civically responsible and knowledgeable adults.’’ Just curious, why not expose students to stories of people who fled European fascism? When I was a … Read more
The Arizona Senate has embarrassed itself and the state of Arizona with its shitshow of a GQP sham “fraudit” of Maricopa County ballots by an unqualified QAnon conspiracy theorist promoting the Big Lie that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. It is just one big grift of the simple-minded fools who are members of … Read more
Our MAGA/QAnon blog trolls have frequently posed a defense of the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit,” to wit, “if you are so confident in the election results, what harm is there in letting this audit play out?” This false framing presupposes this Cyber Ninja Dude, Doug Logan, is a legitimate election audit expert and is … Read more
The Washington Post reports, Republican-commissioned hand recount of ballots in Arizona close to concluding; no results expected until later this summer: A widely criticized hand recount of 2020 presidential ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest jurisdiction, is nearing completion, an official associated with the effort said Monday, but results from the process are not expected … Read more