The #fraudit gives me extreme cognitive dissonance bc Ds shld demanded to do what Rs are doing (minus the bamboo shreds, etc). It is inside out. It was Rs that blocked efforts to require meaningful manual audits for all federal races. It is Ds who suffered poll-defying losses. 1/
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1390810876475703297
It’s almost too much to deal with. It is so infuriating. Why can’t there be a happy medium between complete abdication (Democrats) and insurrection (Republicans)? 2/ axios.com/gop-senator-el…
Remember the blue wave that wasn’t? 3/ 
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8/“Democratic House Speaker Sara Gideon lost to [Republican Susan] Collins by as much as 9 points, after polls generally favored her to win, sometimes by a large margin.” vox.com/21559109/maine…
9/ “And in North Carolina, Cunningham was defeated by Tillis by roughly 2 points, though polls had shown Cunningham with a slight edge.”
10/ Sure these unexpected Democratic losses could very well be legitimate. But goddamnit they shld have been subjected to meaningful manual audits and they weren’t.
11/ Instead we have a bunch of Republican #frauditors running around in Maricopa.
13/ Here is part of the dissonance. I want citizens to be able to hand audit election outcomes bc lawmakers have failed to pass laws requiring meaningful manual audits. But Ds won’t pay for it or demand it. Only Rs will do that. And now Ds want to shut it down. I’d rather...
14/ ... they launched their own manual audits.
15/ And I can’t honestly say that I think vote tallies were secure in 2020 bc I’ve seen no proof of that. Experts agreed this wld require robust manual audits, which we did not get for any of our House or Senate races as far as I know.
16/ I tried to get Chris Krebs to engage on this concern, but he blocked me instead. Which pretty much told me what I needed to know, but most Democratic voters have been misled by his “most secure election ever” talking point. It was a very low bar.
17/ We cannot tolerate an election system where we have to blindly rely on someone’s word as to whether it was secure. That’s just stupid.
18/ Great. Just great. As of 2018, per this CAP report, Maine did not require post-election audits at all. And as indicated above, NC’s random audit wasn’t random after all per @VickerySec. cdn.americanprogress.org/content/upload…
19/ To be fair, CAP is not a fan of Arizona’s manual audits. But note that Maricopa county appears to be better than the rest of the state (per the report). Yet THAT is the only county @AZGOP has targeted. cdn.americanprogress.org/content/upload…
20/ Note: Cunningham (Dem who lost in NC) was caught having an affair in October. Maybe this depressed turnout, explaining why the polls were wrong, but we must insist on evidence rather than speculation. The race shld have been meaningfully audited. All of them shld have been.
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