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18 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
🧵 Two prominent reporters at the far-right TV station OAN are running a dark money organization that they say is helping fund a farcical “audit” that Trump supporters believe will overturn Arizona’s 2020 election results.

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Christina Bobb, OAN’s correspondent covering the process, is CEO and president of Voices and Votes, a group she says she founded to help complete the Arizona "audit."

OAN White House correspondent Chanel Rion is listed as the CMO, and Rion’s fiance is listed as the group’s COO.
Bobb is still helping scare up money on OAN airwaves while she and the far-right network enjoy unique access and exclusive livestreaming rights to the "audit" process being run by private contractors.
Voices and Votes’ 501(c)(4) status means its donors will never be made public, nor will they have to give an accounting of where the money actually went. Bobb says all the money is going "to the auditors," but won't say how much they've raised.
What's happening in Arizona is not an “audit." It’s a Republican stunt and will have no effect on election results; Arizona already audited Maricopa and didn’t find a single vote discrepancy.

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