Part of the reason “fraudits” have spun out of control is that official audits are inadequate. In 2018, the left-leaning CAP gave AZ a “D” on election security, based in part on its lame audit law. Ironically, Maricopa’s audits are somewhat better than the rest of the state. 1/ 
The non-right wing media is ignoring the sorry state of official audits. But that sorry state is already a matter of official record. We can’t fight fraudits by pretending Arizona’s official audits are great because they aren’t. 2/ cdn.americanprogress.org/content/upload…
When elected officials pretend otherwise, they are lying. And when people learn their government has lied to them, they become much more vulnerable to tinfoil theories like #BambooGate. 3/
This is why, IMHO, it was a grave error for the Democrats to pretend the election was more secure than it was. Once u lose credibility, it is very difficult to get it back. Instead, they shld have led with their attempt to pass the #SAFEAct & the GOP’s role in blocking it. 4/
IMO, THIS should have been the talking point. But Democratic leaders don’t listen to me. 5/
6/ The #BambooGate theory is indeed not remotely credible. But why would anyone on the right listen to left wing media which is itself dishonest about election security now?
https://twitter.com/jimsoper/status/1315035356689887232
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9/ Link for Halderman’s talk in post 7.
10/ No, I’m not defending the fraudit.
11/ I have opposed it and continue to oppose it based on the GOP’s conduct in blocking meaningful audits for ALL federal races, counties and vendors, as well as due to transparency concerns.
12/ But I also oppose trying to challenge the fraudit with lies or half-truths of our own. Now, more than ever, truth and credibility matter.
13/ Once u lose your credibility, it is almost impossible to get it back.
14/ I will say this. If Republican state lawmakers in Arizona didn’t like the state’s audit procedures, they shld have changed them b4 the election. Instead, they are re-writing the rules that they created after the fact and cherry picking one race & one county & one vendor, …
… which has nothing to do with integrity and can never speak to the integrity of the election as a whole. 15/
We “secure” vote tallies primarily w/ paper ballots, but paper ballots do no good if no one looks at them in a meaningful way or at all, & almost no one does, as explained in my pre-election piece for the NY Review of Books. 16/ nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…
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