Among comments was a screenshot that was also circulating on other platforms on its own, showing an unknown document bearing text reading, “DHS Announces Election Audit Sting After Contentious U.S. From what I’ve seen, DHS announced that there was a federal government sting planned and executed for this election. But there is widespread agreement inside the GOP that Democratic fraud is stealing elections, and that Republicans must not let that happen. There was one substantial adjustment for the pandemic: a judge ruled that voters who had returned a mail ballot without a signature could fix that issue until 5 p.m. Previously, mail ballots had to be received by 8 p.m. Today the machines and ballots were moved to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the State Fairgrounds where they will be audited. The audit, which is being led by firm Cyber Ninjas and has been taking place in Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, is expected to finish in late June, according to organizers. Check Your Fact has previously debunked claims related to the audit, including allegations that 250,000 fraudulent votes had been found and that the election technology firm Dominion Voting Systems had a team of 70 lawyers try to stop the audit from taking place.
The same idea has been amplified by Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, whose baseless charges of election fraud bought him a $1.3 billion defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems. Instead, Republicans insist, they are losing because of rampant and systemic fraud. “Arizona Republican State Senators are engendering such tremendous respect, even adoration, for the great job they are doing on the Forensic Audit of the 2020 PresidentialElection Scam, “Mr. Lindell also declared on Steve Bannon’s podcast that Trump would be “back in office in August.” The evidence, which he compared to “blood DNA at a crime scene,” would be so overwhelming, he promised, that even Rachel Maddow would accept Biden’s ouster. Auditors of Detroit’s Absentee Counting Board found that local Election Audit officials had properly counted 174,000 valid ballots that corresponded to signed envelopes that were submitted by registered voters and reviewed by the clerk’s office. Most Republicans don’t believe that Trump is set to return to the Oval Office later this summer. So don’t be surprised if this notion gathers momentum in the right’s feedback loop, especially if Trump continues to stoke false hopes.
But Trump’s embrace of the story shows how the right’s doom loop of craziness works – and how it is accelerating narratives that began in the fevered imaginations of his hardcore true believers. This is an interview by Owen Shroyer of”Info Wars”, an odd choice to release the biggest political story in decades (if it’s true) said by a guy in a Hawaiian shirt. But that’s not the point; the story works for him as long as other people believe it. If reinstatement sounds kooky, that’s because it is. That’s clearly not the case, as statistics from 2019 and early 2020 show. The methodology behind the Maricopa election audit has been kept under wraps, but video of the audit appears to show the technique that many had hoped to see. This video features Commissioner Chris Piper and VotingWorks’ Ginny Vander Roest sharing acknowledgements and results of the state-wide risk-limiting audit recently conducted for the 2020 General Election. Many voters choose to drop off their early ballots at polling places on Election Day – those ballots typically take at least a week to count.
First, the auditors forced the county election board to admit that the voting machines were not protected by a password at the administrative level, thus allowing anyone to change anything on every machine, during the vote count. House districts in the South or in urban centers (though Trump did question low vote tallies for Republican candidates in Philadelphia). This includes Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, and one electoral vote in Nebraska. Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn’t how it works but simply sharing the information). “It is disappointing, though not surprising, that the primary goal of this group is to continue spreading false information designed to erode the public’s confidence in the election,” said Jake Rollow, spokesman for Benson. Most scenarios for state-by-state results take into account a slower pace of counting than usual in some key battleground states, particularly in the Rust Belt (read a helpful overview of each state’s likely timing here). But because of the state’s highly decentralized voting system, the agency lacks the legal authority to mandate audits across the state.
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Natisha Knox created the group A good Election Fraud Is… 2 years, 8 months ago