2. It's important to establish that the votes in Maricopa County were already counted, audited, and approved by the REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED BOARD that administers elections there
Lawsuits challenging the count were thrown out of court
3. So the Arizona Senate, controlled by Republicans who promote Trump's false claims of voter fraud, subpoenaed 2.1M ballots and sent them to the former home of the Phoenix Suns
Then, they put a conspiracy theorist from Florida in charge of the operation
5. Logan tried to keep the procedures used to count the votes secret but was forced to make them public by a court and they involved putting the ballots under a UV light to check for "watermarks" even though Arizona ballots don't have watermarks
6. Among the people COUNTING THE VOTES is a former member of the Arizona legislature, Anthony Kern, who was on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the insurrectionists
7. Logan is being paid 150K by taxpayers. But that's not nearly enough cash to pay for this circus. So a website called fundtheaudit.com is trying to raise $2.8M.
The website is created by former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne.
8. Byrne is a notorious conspiracy theorist who insists Trump won and says he has "been funding a Bad News Bears collection of just the right spooks, lawyers and ethical hackers, patriots all, to reverse engineer, infiltrate, and disrupt this coup"
9. It's easy to dismiss this as a sideshow but Trump is relentlessly promoting this audit and the "results" are likely to be used to justify voter suppression laws in AZ and elsewhere
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@OversightBoard 2. First the @OversightBoard called out Facebook directly for trying to use the Oversight Board as a mechanism to avoid accountability.
There were direct: "Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities. The Board declines Facebook’s request"
3. Many of the top donors are members of the Greater Houston Partnership, a biz group. Many members wanted to speak out against the bills. But it was nixed by GHP leadership
A guess who is a member of the GHP leadership? Heidi Cruz, wife of @SenTedCruz
@RonDeSantisFL@UnitedHealthGrp@Publix@AnheuserBusch@ATT@CVSHealth 2. Kind of cuts against the idea that corporations have suddenly become "woke." In fact, they are financing the campaigns of politicians who are pushing voter suppression legislation and then saying nothing as the bills are considered and signed into law.
Dem members of the TX House Committee on Elections write Attorney General Garland and ask the DOJ Civil Rights Division to monitor future proceedings of the committee after the chair tried to force a vote on a sweeping voter suppression bill with no notice or hearing