Republicans in Arizona attempting mass voter fraud with the 2020 ballots.

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hal2kilo

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esquared

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rommelrommel

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Ugh, the idiots are already using the “I thought you libtards said the cyber ninjas were incompetent partisans. Why do you trust them now?”
 
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NWRMidnight

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Just as expected, and the very reason they did everything they could to prolong revealing the results, as they where not in their favor and did not support their bullshit narrative.
 
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MrSquished

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Ugh, the idiots are already using the “I thought you libtards said the cyber ninjas were incompetent partisans. Why do you trust them now?”
They just couldn't figure out how to make it look fraudulent after they realized what they wanted to find did not exist
 

trenchfoot

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Running audits by the Repubs was/is a short game strategy with no plausible exit strategy that would allow them to save face or appear to be a legit effort at protecting the integrity of the way we vote for our leaders.

Trump is doing the nation a favor by making those Repubs running audits look foolishly desperate and out of their collective minds in their attempts to appease Trump and his cult base. The more they do it, the more they prove that Trump took the party down a dead end road with no possible way of turning around.

To top it all off, McConnell is being so blatantly hypocritical in his efforts to "fight the good fight" he's hasn't a shred of credibility to barter with let alone any hint of morals and ethics that that party once espoused as a feature of their ethos.
 

KMFJD

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now they are going to 'audit' the Texas election....setting up the big lie to continue
 
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They're just going to make lots of hay about the audit, to further undermine confidence in free and fair elections, as a way to implement further voter restrictions and to entrench their power.

The results of the audits don't matter. As long as there is news about a voting audit, their deplorable constituents will eat it up and go along for the resulting ride, probably chanting the manta, "must be something there if they're doing an audit, right?"
 

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They're just going to make lots of hay about the audit, to further undermine confidence in free and fair elections, as a way to implement further voter restrictions and to entrench their power.

The results of the audits don't matter. As long as there is news about a voting audit, their deplorable constituents will eat it up and go along for the resulting ride, probably chanting the manta, "must be something there if they're doing an audit, right?"

A growing percentage of Republicans don't accept that Democratic voters are legitimate participants in the US political system. This is the core belief that drives everything and will eventually push said system over the edge as GOP attempts to seize power become even more blatant and aggressive each cycle.
 

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Ugh, the idiots are already using the “I thought you libtards said the cyber ninjas were incompetent partisans. Why do you trust them now?”
We shouoldn't trust Cyber Ninjas. We should trust the certified election results. Two completely different things. One is a count of votes. The other is a count of votes plus a bunch of politically driven changes to "fix" the thing that they just showed didn't need fixing.
 

fskimospy

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We shouoldn't trust Cyber Ninjas. We should trust the certified election results. Two completely different things. One is a count of votes. The other is a count of votes plus a bunch of politically driven changes to "fix" the thing that they just showed didn't need fixing.
Exactly this. The audit was a sham from the start, it's just amusing that even highly motivated partisans such as those clowns were unable to get the result they wanted.
 

gothuevos

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Part of me worries this whole "audit" was some trojan horse attempt at gathering private information about voters and/or voting systems that they can use against the masses in the future.

While it's fun to laugh at the results, we still need to remain ultra vigilant.
 
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fskimospy

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Part of me worries this whole "audit" was some trojan horse attempt at gathering private information about voters and/or voting systems that they can use against the masses in the future.

While it's fun to laugh at the results, we still need to remain ultra vigilant.
I wouldn't worry about that.

What I would worry about is that the point of this audit was to delegitimize the democratic process so it's easier to throw out election results they don't like in the future.
 
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UNCjigga

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now they are going to 'audit' the Texas election....setting up the big lie to continue

Help me understand. Trump won Texas. Texas does not split electoral votes. What is the actual purpose of this audit?

(Yes, I know the real purpose, it's a somewhat rhetorical question)
 

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A growing percentage of Republicans don't accept that Democratic voters are legitimate participants in the US political system. This is the core belief that drives everything and will eventually push said system over the edge as GOP attempts to seize power become even more blatant and aggressive each cycle.
Reminds me of this article on Peter Thiel. A conservative libertarian who prefers authoritarian tactics (the exact opposite of libertarian beliefs) and eventually concludes that "I no longer believe democracy and freedom are compatible". He goes on to blame women voters: "women's suffrage is kind of an unfortunate thing because women tend to vote left".

Their way getting what they want as their voting block dies off (elderly baby boomers and now Covid victims) is to essentially end democracy as we know it.
 
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K1052

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Reminds me of this article on Peter Thiel. A conservative libertarian who prefers authoritarian tactics (the exact opposite of libertarian beliefs) and eventually concludes that "I no longer believe democracy and freedom are compatible". He goes on to blame women voters: "women's suffrage is kind of an unfortunate thing because women tend to vote left".

Their way getting what they want as their voting block dies off (elderly baby boomers and now Covid victims) is to essentially end democracy as we know it.

Thiel is one of the most miserable sons of bitches that I've ever had the displeasure of reading about. Just a mean spirited, arrogant, resentful little turd that makes Mr. Burns look like a redeemed Scrooge. It is like somebody built a person shaped black hole to suck in and destroy comity, happiness, contentment, and joy. He even eventually became too much for Silicon Valley VC libertarian and conservative set that he had to move to the Hollywood Hills to be his quasi-fascist weird self.
 
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Reminds me of this article on Peter Thiel. A conservative libertarian who prefers authoritarian tactics (the exact opposite of libertarian beliefs) and eventually concludes that "I no longer believe democracy and freedom are compatible". He goes on to blame women voters: "women's suffrage is kind of an unfortunate thing because women tend to vote left".

Their way getting what they want as their voting block dies off (elderly baby boomers and now Covid victims) is to essentially end democracy as we know it.

It’s really hard to look at their actions and not come to the conclusion that republicans are anti democratic.

Can anyone come to a different conclusion based on their collective actions?
 
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woolfe9998

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Weird. Foxnews.com has no coverage of the Arizona audit report.

Funny though, I recall them reporting on the progress of the audit numerous times. Don't their readers want to know the result?

I guess they just haven't heard about it yet. I'm sure they'll be right on it once they do.
 

Greenman

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Ugh, the idiots are already using the “I thought you libtards said the cyber ninjas were incompetent partisans. Why do you trust them now?”
There is some validity to that. Accusations of impropriety were mentioned right in this thread, now it appears that they were unfounded.
Nothing is going to change the outcome of the election, pissing away time and money on recounts won't affect the result, Joe won, it's time to move on.
If evidence of actual large scale fraud was proven beyond a reasonable doubt, that would be grounds for changing election laws and sending people to jail, but it still wouldn't put Trump in office. By the time it all wound through the courts, Joe would be in the old presidents home.
 
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