Right-wing “audit” tourism, a brief thread.
Right-wing activists who believe former President Donald Trump’s false claim that the election was stolen from him are watching Arizona, where GOP Senate leaders hired a company led by a conspiracy theorist to “audit” the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County.
“What’s happening in Arizona is not really an audit or a recount. It’s a partisan inquisition” that could further erode trust in elections and legitimate recounts, wrote FiveThirtyEight’s Kayleigh Rogers last week. fivethirtyeight.com/features/post-…
Republicans in other states are calling for or launching copycat “audits” being demanded by so-called “Stop the Steal” activists. apnews.com/article/donald…
Some Pennsylvania Republican legislators, including Trumpist state senator Doug Mastriano, are taking a field trip to Arizona to get a tour of the “audit” site today.
https://twitter.com/AuditWarRoom/status/1400117458720018437?s=20
Mastriano is hoping that God and Trump voters will make him Pennsylvania’s next governor: rightwingwatch.org/post/trumpist-…
Mastriano was reportedly behind Pennsylvania Republicans hiring one of the “Cyber Ninjas” contractors to carry out an “audit” in one Pennsylvania county—perhaps as a test run for a larger project. tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/0…
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has criticized the “audit,” saying, “the procedures that we’re seeing being carried out are undermining any kind of valid result that you would get from this audit.”
Some state Republicans are even more blunt. The Republican chairman of the Maricopa County board of supervisors has denounced the “grift designed as an audit,” saying it is “dangerous” to indulge the false claims that are driving the entire process. seattletimes.com/nation-world/w…
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