Thread by @AliVelshi

1/15
It would be so easy for me to joke about the “results” of the Arizona election recount. Republicans there yelled: “There’s no way Joe Biden won this election! There must be fraud! Let’s bring in the Cyber Ninjas!” #velshi

2/15
10 months later, the “so called” audit determined that Biden actually won Arizona’s most populous county by an even greater margin than was originally reported. #velshi

3/15
10 months, with a hand-picked firm with zero election audit experience conducting a grossly partisan fake audit, and even then they couldn’t get the results they wanted. This is too easy. The jokes write themselves. #velshi

4/15
I could tell you the Cyber Ninjas were so *stealthy* that even they couldn’t see their own failure coming. Or I could say that this is what you get when you listen to a guy that sells foam pillows on TV. I could...but I won’t. #velshi

5/15
Despite the fact that most-not all- but most leaders in Arizona made themselves into a laughingstock, what they did was deeply corrosive to the future of democracy in America. The results of this “fraudit” don’t matter because it was illegitimate from the start. #velshi

6/15
To say that this was a “win” for Biden or a “loss” for Trump gives stock to a scam: a theft of freedom in the United States of America. And if you think it stops here, you are dead wrong. #velshi

7/15
Arizona was not the first - and it will not be the last - state to try and strip away voting rights from its citizens. It just so happens that Arizona was kind of bad at it. #velshi

8/15
AZ Republicans hired a sham company that had zero experience with election audits, their leaders and organizers had partisan motives. Oh yeah, and THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD IN THE 2020 ELECTION. None. Not in Arizona. And not anywhere else. #velshi

9/15
But here’s the danger: Arizona will now be the poster child for what *not* to do when trying to overturn an election; basically, a user guide on "How To Lose A Fake Recount THAT YOU CONTROL in 10 Months.” The next state to try it won’t be as stupid as Arizona was. #velshi

10/15
It’s already happening in Republican states around the country. It might not look like the spectacle that was on display in Arizona: with red and blue magic makers, alleged bamboo ballots, Cyber Ninjas, and tampered voting machines. #velshi

11/15
It does look like this: restrictive voting laws, poll watchers who intimidate voters, polling locations disappearing, and redistricting. And that’s what should scare you. #velshi

12/15
Just because an injustice doesn't have a direct impact on your life does not mean it isn’t your problem. Because if just ONE person in this country is prevented from voting, then our democracy is incomplete. Our continuing attempts at a more perfect union fall short #velshi

13/15
One day you are enjoying the privileges of this democracy, and then poof, they’re gone. Almost like, dare I say it...a ninja? The fraudit in AZ was never the real threat. The Cyber Ninjas were amateur grifters who had one job they couldn’t deliver for Republicans. #velshi

14/15
There are real, more competent forces at work attempting to dismantle our democracy by trying to decide who’s votes count. And they just might succeed where Arizona failed. #velshi

15/15
Democracy itself hangs in the balance, and our work here is far from done. #velshi