Another Right-wing narrative bites the dust - Arizona Audit 2.0

No, more maggots I think.

 

I guess you missed this part:

“In the 2020 presidential election, the margin of victory was only 10,457 votes, a small fraction of the 57,734 ballots with known issues. Again, this is almost 6 times the margin of victory in the Presidential race and is multiples of the margin of victory in other races. Based on these factual findings, the election should not be certified, and the reported results are not reliable.”

 

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/3/25/22350378/sidney-powell-admits-lie-mona-charen

Sidney Powell admits it was all a lie
This is not about Powell or even about Trump anymore. It’s about the complete abdication of integrity by leaders on the right — Republican officeholders, conservative opinion leaders and right-wing TV.

The Big Lie is starting to unravel. One of Donald Trump’s disinformation stars, Sidney Powell, is backing down. But while we’re considering the matter of truth and lies, let’s recall when conservatives cared about truth (or seemed to).

In the 1990s, Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchu was a phenomenon. Of Mayan descent, she offered harrowing testimony about the conduct of the Guatemalan military during that country’s civil war. Her 1983 as-told-to memoir, “I Rigoberta Menchu,” was a sensation. In 1992, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

When it came to light that Menchu had distorted key aspects of her autobiography, right and left responded very differently. David Stoll, an anthropologist, learned through archival research and interviews with more than 120 people that some of her tales were false. A younger brother she said had died of starvation never existed. Another brother, whom she claimed had been tortured to death in front of her parents, died in completely different circumstances. A New York Times investigation confirmed Stoll’s findings.

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Liberals tended to excuse Menchu, on the grounds that her story revealed a “larger truth.” Some argued that while details of her story might not have been strictly true, the overall narrative remained valid because it “raised our collective consciousness” about the Maya people.

Conservatives were appalled that Menchu’s Nobel Prize was not rescinded, and galled that some liberals defended Menchu’s invocation of “my truth.” There was no “my truth” or “your truth” they countered. There was only the truth.

The Menchu story comes to mind because this week we’ve witnessed further evidence of just how corrupted the right has become. The assault on truth is Donald Trump’s most damaging legacy.

It’s not good for Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic that allies of the president grossly defamed them, but it may turn out to be good for the country that they are availing themselves of legal remedies.

Powell, a key propagandist in Trump’s big lie about the 2020 election, has issued a response to Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit. Let’s review some of the statements Powell made after the election:

Appearing on Newsmax on Nov. 17, Powell said she had a video showing Dominion founder John Poulos bragging, “I can change a million votes, no problem at all.” The video did not exist.

At a press conference with Rudy Giuliani and others, Powell said Dominion had been “created in Venezuela by Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election.” She said the machines had an algorithm that automatically flipped votes, and that George Soros’ “No. 2 person” was “one of the leaders of the Dominion project.” Also false.

Her tone has changed.

The reply Powell’s lawyers issued to Dominion’s complaint is a climb down. After challenging the court’s jurisdiction and venue (standard lawyer maneuvers) and adding the claim that her comments were First Amendment-protected political speech, they get to the substance and things get truly mind-bending.

Sure, Powell’s reply acknowledges, she made a series of claims about the election being stolen, but because she was clearly speaking in a political context, her comments must be construed as standard political exaggeration.

The election truther’s argument, then, is that any factual claim, no matter how false, is insulated from consequences under defamation law if it is connected to politics. This is worse than “my truth.” This is the claim that any politically motivated lie is fine.

But Powell takes it to another level. She next argues that the very outlandishness of her false statements is a defense. Sure, her reply acknowledges, Powell had said, “Democrats were attempting to steal the election and had developed a computer system to alter votes electronically.” But “no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.”

So, that’s it. The great lie that has poisoned our politics and inspired an attack on the Capitol and bids to become the incubus of future extremism and violence was such absurd bilge that “no reasonable person would believe it.”

Of course, millions of Americans did and do believe it. The crazed mob that stormed the Capitol believed every word. Polls have found that between two-thirds and three-quarters of Republicans believe the election was fraudulent.

This is not about Powell or even about Trump anymore. It’s about the complete abdication of integrity by leaders on the right — Republican officeholders, conservative opinion leaders, right-wing TV and so forth. At first they countered Trump’s lies. Soon after, they began to avoid them. Next, they pretended to find them amusing. Then they shrugged. Finally, they joined. When enough people in authority tell lies, they cripple their audience’s capacity for reason. A few meritorious lawsuits cannot repair that.

 

As @Profiler pointed out, you must have missed this part:

“In the 2020 presidential election, the margin of victory was only 10,457 votes, a small fraction of the 57,734 ballots with known issues. Again, this is almost 6 times the margin of victory in the Presidential race and is multiples of the margin of victory in other races. Based on these factual findings, the election should not be certified, and the reported results are not reliable.”

 

I can assure you that FD didn’t read anything other than some leftist spin! That would be “homework”.

 

But they also confirmed ballots with known issues weren't counted by their hand recount so...

 

The official executive summary, Maricopa County Forensic Election Audit, Volume I: Executive Summary & Recommendations, as released by the Arizona State Senate on Friday afternoon and dated September 24, can be seen here.

The results of the audit, however, actually raise more doubts about the legitimacy of more than 49,000 votes included in the final counts of both the forensic audit and the Maricopa County Official Canvass results, a number that is more than four times greater than Biden’s 10,457 vote certified margin of victory.

 

Actually, I still can't find that quote in any of the 3 report volumes. Where did you get it from?

 

It was in the draft and final summary. I don’t think it was on the link I provided you. My bad.

 

Here's what I'm still missing. No drafts were ever publicly released. I looked into it, because I found the document you're referring to, and it appears it was published by Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit. Who is notorious for, put bluntly, making stuff up and writing with the journalistic integrity of a gas station celebrity tabloid.

I promise should it come to light the document was real I will apologize, but even that document merely suggests that there were over 50000 ballots with issues, not that those ballots were certified and counted.

 

Linked here are the original Draft of the Report and the Final Report

The extent of removal of both summary statements and of supporting detail is stunning, and implies that the auditor was unduly pressured to alter their report before publication.

Edited out of the report were 3 pages of the drafted 7 page document, including the following:

Many of the issues in the election can be traced back to two primary causative factors: mail-in voting and improper voter registration management. More than 80% of the ballots cast in Maricopa were via mail.

The guarantee of the secret ballot is not only a right that applies to the voter themself, but it is also a right guaranteed to the rest of those voting in the election that that person’s ballot is secret and therefore cannot have come under any undue influence. Mail-in voting eliminates secrecy in voting as it is impossible to control or know who a voter shares their ballot with and what is done with it prior to it being mailed-in or dropped off.

57,734 ballots with serious issues were identified in the audit. These issues include improper voter registration, improper votes, and discrepancies in the registration. This is a conservative estimate, as there were other identified problems that were not quantified nor included in that total, likely resulting in a much larger number of flawed ballots.

Additional issues identified: backdated registrations, multiple voter registrations linked to the same voter affidavit, voters without records in a commercial database, and printing defects rendering thousands of ballots as suspicious.

In the 2020 presidential election, the margin of victory was only 10,457 votes, a small fraction of the 57,734 ballots with known issues. Again, this is almost 6 times the margin of victory in the Presidential race and is multiples of the margin of victory in other races. Based on these factual findings, the election should not be certified,and the reported results are not reliable.

Major issues identified:

• There were more than 10,000 double votes across county lines
• Tens of thousands of ballots cast from individuals who had moved prior to the election and could not have physically received their ballots, legally.
• None of the systems related to elections integrity had numbers that would balance and agree with each
• other.
• The voter rolls and the registration management process itself have many data integrity issues. For instance, over200 individuals were easily identifiable as likely being the same person but having two different Voter IDs and voting twice in the election.
• Without access to the County’s detailed records including personally identifiable information and registration systems it is more likely there were many tens of thousands of improper votes in the election from double voters,deceased voters, voters for which we can find no trace in the public records nor association to their voting address, moved voters, etc.
• Proper voter registration law and procedures were not followed.
• There were unexplained large purges of registered voters, right after the election, of people who had voted in the election.
• There was back dating of registrations, adjustments made to historical voting and voter records, unexplained linking of voter registration affidavits to multiple voters and more.
• Files were missing from the Election Management System (EMS) Server.
• Ballot images on the EMS were corrupt or missing.
• Logs appeared to be intentionally rolled over, and all the data in the database related to the 2020 General Election had been fully cleared.
• On the ballot side, batches were not always clearly delineated, duplicated ballots were missing the required serial numbers, originals were duplicated more than once, and the Auditors were never provided Chain-of-Custody documentation for the ballots for the time-period prior to the ballot’s movement into the Auditors’ care. This all increased the complexity and difficulty in properly auditing the results.
• There were substantial statistically significant anomalies identified in the ratio of hand-folded ballots, on-demand printed ballots, as well as a statistically significant increase in provisional ballot rejections for a mail-in ballot already being cast, suggestive of mail-in ballots being cast for voters without their knowledge.

The 2005 Report on Federal Election Reform, which was an effort led by democrats, stated the following regarding mail-in voting:

“While vote by mail appears to increase turnout for local elections there is no evidence that it significantly expands participation in federal elections. Moreover it raises concerns about privacy as citizens voting at home may come under pressure to vote for certain candidates and it increases the risk of fraud.”
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Managing an election conducted almost entirely by mail is a difficult endeavor and raises numerous issues which would be much less likely to occur if most voting was in-person.

Had Maricopa County chosen to cooperate with the audit, many of the obstacles faced in the audit could have been overcome. By the County withholding subpoena items, their unwillingness to answer questions as is normal between auditor and auditee, and in some cases actively interfering with audit research, the County prevented a complete audit. This did not stop the primary goal of offering recommendations for legislative reform to the Arizona Senate, but it did leave many questions open as to the way and manner that the 2020 General Election was conducted.

The following is a list of findings covered within the report. Details on all these findings as well as the results of the hand-tallying can be found in the document“Maricopa County Forensic Audit –Volume III –Results Details”.

[Written by the poster, and not part of the report - I couldn't figure out how to paste in the table of specific findings by category, but the tabulated findings may be viewed in the table in the Draft of the Report].
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NOTE: Ballots Impacted is intended to give a gauge on the potential impact for the finding.While it is based on the number of ballot impacted by the finding, it is not generally expected that any single finding would completely favor a candidate. In many cases there could be legitimate and legal votes within the Ballots Impact amount. For more details, please see the write-up for the finding within Volume III.
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The mishandling of this electoral process reeks, not of incompetence, but of deliberate intent.​

 

No...it only confirmed that Democrats can count. The ballots themselves lack integrity. Without voter integrity, you don't have a valid election. That's the point.

This is just more proof that you and your PL cohorts are Marxists. You're terrorizing the population with COVID...only to "justify" further unConstitutional mail-in voting. If you were Americans, you would insist on voter integrity...but you don't...and you aren't.

 

Liberals can't read red letters through their rose-colored glasses...

 

Crickets . . .
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As usual Joe, you thought wrong.

 

Ever notice when leftist are confronted with facts... they don’t want to play anymore?

 

Ever? . . . How about always, and if they don’t just go away, they either change the subject, post memes or sling insults.

 

They're Marxists...they have all the answers.