Lastamender
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Fake news. OAN has the same access and camara video stream as everybody else. Other media sources are just afraid to report on this story.Now OANN is involved in Arizona's Senate election audit? Can this thing get any more absurd?
Opinion: The Arizona Senate's auditors have selected their broadcast partner for the election audit, a right-wing cable TV network renowned for spreading conspiracy theories. Why am I not surprised?
Laurie Roberts
Arizona Republic
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OANN will livestream Arizona's election audit? That's just absurd (azcentral.com)
The channel is known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories.[41] On November 24, 2020, YouTube suspended and demonetized OANN's channel for one week as a first strike under its three-strike community guideline violation policy for advertising a false cure for COVID-19.[39]
One America News Network - Wikipedia
BULLSHIT. Other media sources are being BARRED from entry. Only OAN is in their. One journalist snuck in as a poll watcher, and she was barred from entry the second day, after they found out who she was.
A fake cyber security company is doing an "audit" of the votes, without the following the state guidelines for an audit, using untrained workers, using blue and black pens which spoil the ballots. All of this is being records by an fake new network, which is financing this fiasco, based on the Donald Trump's lie that the election was "stolen".
What could possibly go wrong???
The Press is barred entry? Geez...you'd think it was a tax payer funded ICE detention center....
Are you ok with a private firm being given access to ballots which they can alter with no oversight?
as opposed to a "public" firm? someone has to do the audit. I would imagine if they want to present their evidence in Court...since this part of a Court proceeding, they would have to swear under oath...just like anyone else presenting evidence, including "public" firms...So, I am fine with it
Oh? What court ordered this audit?
Maricopa County Superior Court.
The Senate order the audit...the Dems filed a lawsuit, the Court said, fine, you can have an injuction....but you have to pay the folks that were about to do the audit for the time and prep, or it will go forward. The Dems didn't pay. The Court Order the audit to go forward.
Not quite. The Republican Senate didn't just order the audit, they subpoenaed the ballots. That's not a court proceeding. Not even with a court denying Democrats' attempts in court to prevent the audit.
Well the Senate doesn't belong to one party or the other...it's just the Senate. The Senate order a forensic audit...the Dems filed a lawsuit, the Court said they could have an injuction if they payed the cost already expended by the companies retained, they didn't...and order the audit to continue
Their Senate is under Republican control. Who the fuck knows why you tried to ignore that? Still, it's not a court ordered audit. It was ordered by Arizona Republican Senators who first issued the subpoenas. All the court did was to affirm the Senate had the legal authority to issue the subpoenas. That in no way makes this a court ordered audit as the court never ordered it. At most, they allowed it and even then, only because Arizona law allows their state Senate to authorize it.
Still, it's a sham audit. Despite some 80% of all ballots in all of Arizona being mail-in ballots, this audit is examining only ballots from the state's most left-leaning county. Rather than hire a reputable and qualified firm to perform the audit, they hired a company with zero auditing experience, led by a conspiracy nut who himself promoted the Big Lie. Now they're in possession of the ballots where their reportedly marking them up illegally with wrong colored pens and there's no oversight. They could be destroying ballots by marking votes for all anyone knows. Who knows why you're ok with that?
The Senate is the Senate...but whatever..
The Senate order the audit, the elected representatives of the people. The Dems filed a lawsuit, the Judge granted the injunction, if they paid the cost to the companies for the cost of what they have spent, if not the audit was to go forward...they didn't, those the Court's Order for the audit to continue went forward.
This isn't rocket science.
No, it's not, which leaves me wondering why you lied and referred to the audit as "court ordered" when it was really ordered by Arizona's Republican-led state Senate?
Because it was...the Court Ordered that the Audit continue, unless the Dems paid the contractors. They didn't...thus the Order was enforced.
This really isn't hard to grasp.
The court did NOT order the audit be continued. He simply didn't order that it be stopped. Legally this is a HUGE distinction. There is no court order to continue the audit and to say otherwise, is just another flat out lie, which is all that has been going on since the process started.
wrong, the court in fact ORDERed the injunction if the dems paid the contractors for the money they would have lost for preparing, if the dems djdnt the Order thus said the audit could continue.
A Court speaks through its ORDERS
You just can't stop lying. There was no court order to audit ballots. There's no law w at says a private company has to audit ballots so there's no court that can order Cyber Ninja's to do so.
I never said there was a law that requred cyber ninja to do the audit...why do you think there has to be a law for a Court to have an Order for someone to do something?
What I said was totally factual correct...the Senate speaking for the people that elected them order the audit, the Dems objected and filed a lawsuit..the Court speaking through it's Orders, Ordered the injuction the Dems requested, on condition they paid the company for money they would have lost preparing for the audit, and if they didn't Ordered the audit to continue
Utterly false. The Order does NOT require the audit to continue. It only states that the audit is to be stopped if the Democrats cover the costs.
The Court in no way opines as to whether or not the audit is legal or whether it is being done in accordance with state law. The Order only covers the circumstances under which the Democrats can force the audit to stop.
NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS. THE COURT REFUSED TO OPINE ON THE LEGALITY, NECESSITY OR EVEN WHETHER THE AUDIT IS LEGAL. NONE OF THE THINGS YOU'RE CLAIMING THE JUDGE ISSUED THE ORDER ABOUT.
and if they don’t it’s ordered to continue...hence why it’s going on!
again why are you so upset about the people of Arizona attempting to make sure their elections are done correctly?
why would the audit be illegal and why would the court opine on things even the dems didn’t raise in their request?
Your assumption is utterly and completely false. Not ordering it stop is not the same thing as ordering it to continue. If Democrats don't pay to stop the count, it's up to the Senate which ordered it what happens to the count.
The court very specifically did not make any other ruling on this legality of this audit other than the circumstances under which the Democrats could end it.
This audit is a massive waste of taxpayer dollars and regardless of what the "auditors" claim is the result, the audit will have no effect whatsoever, other than to make money for the auditors, and continue to spread lies and disinformation.
i made no assumptions just spoke facts
why are you talking about the legality of it? nobody even challenged that so why would the court address it?
the people of Arizona disagree with you view on its wastefulness and care about having a fair and accurate election.
“ The People”
No. The crazy Magarat Republicans
the people elected the senators and the senate ordered this audit. The people deserve to have a safe, accurate and fair election. They want to feel secure in that hence the audit.
why the dems would try to stop that or delay that is rather amazing...but unsurprising. Chaos, division, it’s the leftist way
They already have safe, accurate and fair elections. This audit was called for by a nutty handful of their Senators.
how do you know if we don’t have audits? you know what an audit is right?
Because we do have audits. These same Republican Senators complained last year and they got a recount. It was a partial recount based on a statistically significant portion of ballots. That turned up nothing. The Senate Republicans weren't happy about that so then they demanded an audit on the voting equipment. They got that too. That also turned up nothing. Remarkably, despite getting a recount and an audit, those Republican state Senators, still not happy, demanded and got yet another audit. That too turned up nothing. Were those Republican Senators happy after a count, a canvass, certification, a recount and 2 audits? No, they rejected all of that and demanded another audit. This time, Maricopa County election officials refused to cooperate. That led to where we are today.
So yes, I do know what an audit it. This is Arizona's third audit (plus a recount). Will Republicans demand a 4th if this turns up nothing?
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Answers to your questions about the Arizona Senate's audit of 2020 election results in Maricopa County
The Arizona Republic answers reader questions about the Arizona Senate-ordered audit of Maricopa County's general election results.www.azcentral.comTheir questions remain after multiple lawsuits from the Trump campaign, the Arizona Republican Party and others claiming widespread fraud were dismissed and after multiple audits of Maricopa County results showed that votes were counted accurately and machines were not tampered with.[...]The county hand counted a statistically significant sampling of ballots and conducted two logic and accuracy tests of voting machines.Representatives from all major political parties did a hand count of county ballots after the election. It looked at all votes cast for five races on 8,802 ballots — a statistically significant number of ballots, as state law requires. The audit showed that the county counted votes with 100% accuracy. The county would have expanded the audit if problems were found.
a recount and an audit are two different things
The fact you have to explain that after 400+ posts gives you an idea of the mental giants we are dealing with.