#AZAudit Maricopa & Other Arizona County Election Audits - #CyberNinjas / Jovan Pulitzer / Fann / Birther Ken Bennett

[neeneko]

I'm wondering how she plans to collect all that money when the Gov, SoS, and speaker all ignore her and her stupid papers.

Well, she can always take her judgement and deposit it in a von ritz's new 'bank'.

[raison de arizona]

[LM K]

I blame the chickens.

[raison de arizona]

Sitting AZ State Senator Wendy Rogers threatens AG Merrick Garland with prison. Or, another day in AZ.

[Luke]

Liz Cheney:





Links to:

[raison de arizona]

Personally, for this audit, I think we should universally replace "hand count" with "hand job".

[tek]

Seems legit!

[raison de arizona]

It's almost like *gasp* they aren't even interested in accurate results!

Moore suggested the Senate Republicans might not want to participate in his challenge because if it shows Cyber Ninjas has counting errors it would cast doubt on the Senate-ordered audit.

"Can they even produce a number to compare?" Moore asked. "In talking to Ken Bennett, he's not certain they can do that."

[LM K]

I tweeted in response: "I blame the chickens".

BAM! Blocked.

[Resume18]

I tweeted in response: "I blame the chickens".

BAM! Blocked.

How is an audit a "god-given" right?

[LM K]

A full audit report would be furnished to Fann sometime in July or August, according to projections by Bennett and audit spokesman Randy Pullen.

Ballot exam in 'constant flux'
Ryan Macias, one of three independent elections observers who have written reports for Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, is an expert on election security and technology.

He said the ballot examination was plagued by a lack of transparency.

"The process is in constant flux," he said in an interview. "It's changing on a daily basis or a weekly basis."

The computer software used by ballot examiners has changed week to week, Macias said.

Instructions for ballot examiners also changed last week, according to Macias.

There are now just two instructions for ballot examiners: flag ballots that feel lighter or heavier or textured differently than ballot paper or "any anomaly that cannot be captured by the camera or microscope.''

The computer software will be looking for things like the folds in the ballots, whether the ballot was filled out by a human or a machine, according to Bennett.

"Characteristics about the ballot that confirm or question their authenticity," Bennett said.

Is Jovan Pulitzer involved?
Those are pet conspiracy theories linked to inventor Jovan Pulitzer. His technology reportedly is being used at the audit. Pulitzer has been a leading promoter of election falsehoods, in partnership with the Trump team trying to overturn the election.

"The question has been asked specifically whether or not it was Pulitzer," Macias said.

"We have not been given an answer. But...a worker at one of the stations asked a table manager, and the table manager said, 'Possibly.'"

Macias said he had never seen tests like these on ballots before. The software wouldn't be necessary for post-audit tests done by professional election administrators.

"It fits the narrative," he said of the ballot examination's ties to conspiracy theories. "Is that why it's being conducted? One can only assume."

[Gregg]

This is not an audit, kids, its an illegally conducted recount. An audit would not count the ballots, it would examine the procedures for issuing, delivering, receiving and counting of ballots, and if those procedures were followed. Then it would examine why it wasn't where applicable, and if there is a good reason why or if the exceptions are covered by the procedure. The goal of an audit would be to validate those procedures and to modify them to establish what was and what should have been done to the ones that fell outside the rules, for the next election.

Lesson ends.

[raison de arizona]

Long, depressing article about how Q is living on in the AZ "audit"...

'The audit is The Great Awakening': How QAnon lives on in Arizona's election audit

PHOENIX — It’s not as if Q is spinning ballots around on turntables or waving them under ultraviolet lights. But Q is definitely at work on the floor of Veterans Memorial Coliseum where all 2.1 million general election ballots cast in Arizona’s most populous county are being audited.

Q’s influence is not obvious, perhaps as cryptic as Q's postings that claimed the looming takedown of a global cabal, words that spawned the wide-ranging QAnon conspiracy theory

Q is in the thoughts of those standing in 100-plus-degree heat outside the Phoenix arena where the audit is taking place, cheering on the work inside. Q is the reason ultraviolet lights were briefly employed as part of the audit. Q has provided a sustaining energy atypical for supporters of a losing candidate.

Q has been in the background in the aftermath of Election Day, when devotees joined the crowd who rallied outside Maricopa County’s election headquarters, aiming to stop the stealing of the election they were certain was happening inside.

Q followers barraged elected officials with pleas for this audit. And when Republican leaders in the state Senate ordered the audit, they hired a company whose CEO had shared QAnon-related messaging on social media.

Since 2017, Q had guided followers to expect former President Donald Trump to save the world from a secretive cabal of sex trafficking and pedophile government officials before he left office.

Q followers are now focused on another fantastical possibility: overturning the 2020 presidential election and returning Trump to the White House.

The audit, they say, will prove widespread election fraud here that will lead other states to examine their results, a theory they summarize by saying that Arizona will be “the first domino to fall.”

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/7678939002

[Atticus Finch]

Arizona's new state motto The Domino State.

[Notaperson]

[RTH10260]

https:// twitter.com/az_rww/status/1404511790294126593

AZ Right Wing Watch @az_rww
Random people are now knocking on doors to "canvas" Arizona neighborhoods and asking who they voted for.

Tell them you did not vote.

W.A.I.T

SCREAM - voter fraud - there was an envelope with this persons name in the archives

[Notaperson]

As one can see from the AZ Right Wing Watch twitter feed, a woman named Liz Harris has been busy lately recruiting volunteers to knock on doors and "canvass" in Arizona.

Doesn't that sound like fun?

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[neeneko]

I still think this kind of activity is one of the endgames supporters have been hoping for. Even if the current audit doesn't provide a legal path, it has popularized the idea of canvasing to check votes, moving out of the fringe to a more moderate idea. Crackpots doing it now, but as police respond to that, they will feel out the consequences.. figuring out how far they can push, and framing anything past that as 'what are they hiding???'... maybe even with the hope that sheriff level people will start feeling the pressure and allowing such activities.

[realist]

A bunch of imposters who should be arrested.

The AZ Senate, however, did have (and may still have) plans to do this insanity.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/07/99494517 ... -is-on-hol

[zekeb]

A bunch of imposters who should be arrested.

The AZ Senate, however, did have (and may still have) plans to do this insanity.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/07/99494517 ... -is-on-hol

Will the canvassers carry Bibles and have the respondents swear to tell the truth? Jus' askin'.

[raison de arizona]

As one can see from the AZ Right Wing Watch twitter feed, a woman named Liz Harris has been busy lately recruiting volunteers to knock on doors and "canvass" in Arizona.

Doesn't that sound like fun?


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FWIW, that is Maricopa county. Yavapai county is up in the mountains, much cooler.

[Gregg]

It occurs to me that Arizona is a stand your ground state with pretty lax gun laws. This could turn into a mass Darwin Award program.

[neeneko]

It occurs to me that Arizona is a stand your ground state with pretty lax gun laws. This could turn into a mass Darwin Award program.

Since this is probably mostly white people canvasing minority neighborhoods, stand your ground probably will not work...

[LM K]

This screams white privilege.

Just despicable.

[northland10]

As one can see from the AZ Right Wing Watch twitter feed, a woman named Liz Harris has been busy lately recruiting volunteers to knock on doors and "canvass" in Arizona.

Doesn't that sound like fun?


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But it's a dry heat which I'm told is makes it all good. Then I mention, "but they play baseball indoors."

It is cooler up in Prescott, it is only 100 with and excessive heat warning.

Northland10 does not like Southland100 weather.