Thread by @jennycohn1

This is what I think about the Arizona #fraudit. It is propaganda. I oppose it. That said, most official audits in the US are theatre. Most experts would have said this before the Big Lie. We need laws requiring meaningful manual election audits for ALL federal races in 2022. 1/

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2/ Otherwise, in 2022, we will just have #fraudits of Democratic wins and no meaningful manual audits of GOP wins, even if they defy the polls as occurred in 2020. This is a five alarm fire.

3/ This is what a friend of mine who studies audits wrote about Maricopa’s official audit. It was theatre. That does not excuse the GOP cherry picking Maricopa and Dominion. Again, most US election audits are theatre.

4/ It’s why we so desperately needed the #SAFEAct, which the GOP blocked. It wld have required meaningful manual audits for ALL federal races. Not just those races & counties and machines cherry picked by one party or the other.

5/ The GOP blocked it. axios.com/gop-senator-el…

6/ If @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats want to expose the insincerity of the GOP’s “election integrity” campaign, they should reintroduce the #SAFEAct or another manual audit bill, be LOUD about it, & let the GOP explain why it opposes it. Heck, maybe they will even pass it.

7/ It would be a dereliction of duty to not even try.

8/ Yes, Congress has authority to regulate federal elections.