4/12/22: In case you might miss this story, we should report that Trumplicans in Arizona are rejoicing at recent news. Voter fraud in that state has finally been discovered.
Strike up the marching band. Schedule the real presidential inauguration. Maybe arrest the lovely poet, Amanda Gorman, who spoke at Joe Biden’s “Fake News,” pedophile-themed swearing-in ceremony.
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Fake inauguration! Fake poet, Amanda Gorman!! |
Donald J. Trump is still the 45th president…because, according to Arizona Trumplicans, there was “widespread FRAUD in the Maricopa County 2020 election.” (Maricopa includes Phoenix, and is where more than 60% of Arizona voters reside.)
As the Arizona Republican reported: “State GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward was practically orgasmic” over a report released by the Arizona attorney general’s office.
In a tweet, she predicted, “Perp walks & prosecutions on the way! #ElectionIntegrity.”
The folks who work for the free press were kind enough to provide a link for anyone who wanted to READ about the “widespread FRAUD,” and see how wide and tall and fat it really was.
I’m a former history teacher. As I often say, I like facts. So I decide to dive into the report from the office of Attorney General Mark Brnovich. I notice right away that he reports his investigators have “collectively spent thousands of hours” digging into the muck of the Maricopa County election. Taxpayers, then, have been paying a good deal of money for this effort.
But there’s that “widespread FRAUD!!!”
If it’s uncovered, this could mean DONALD J. TRUMP will soon be RE-SEATED in the OVAL OFFICE.
And he can go GOLFING every third day as PRESIDENT again!!!
(I am CAPITALIZING, like the excited REPUBLICANS who got
their mitts on this story. HOLY SHIT! This is so THRILLING!)
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WELL, to be honest, I kind of start skimming the document (twelve pages is a lot to read, more than Rejected-President Trump will finish– and clearly more than GOP Chairwoman Ward could be bothered to complete.) Still, I like facts. I get interested and decide to go back and read everything. And what I learn is that there was a great deal of paperwork involved in conducting the 2020 election and then as part of this investigation. And sometimes the paperwork wasn’t filled out perfectly, and that means there might have been serious fraud problems.
We learn, for example, that on November 4, 2020,
the Maricopa County recorder verified 206,648
early ballot affidavit signatures, which resulted in an average of 4.6 seconds
per signature. There are simply too many early ballots that must be verified in
too limited a period of time, thus leaving the system vulnerable to error,
fraud and oversight.
Also, when challenged on the validity of their election results, those rat bastards in Maricopa County – who were Republicans – “chose a combative and/or litigious approach” and they were MEAN and didn’t give investigators all the paperwork they needed to PROVE “massive FRAUD.”
It was almost as if they didn’t care about a “posture of transparency!”
I find myself fighting the urge to CAPITALIZE “posture of transparency,” but it’s NOT capitalized in the report.
The authors of this massive REPORT want us to believe they are all about transparency, and regular bowel movements, and note that maybe 100,000 drop-box ballots – maybe 200,000 – were transported “without a proper chain of custody.” So procedures “for handling and verification of early ballots” must be strengthened.
Because Donald J. Trump would STILL BE PRESIDENT.
Call me
a cynic, but I am thinking, if you can’t be sure whether you are talking
100,000 or 200,000 ballots, maybe you need to improve your investigation.
Anyway, I’m hooked. I decide I will have to read this whole MESS because there are serious “election integrity concerns and recommendations” to be made. I keep looking for the evidence of “massive FRAUD,” which the bimbos and bozos have claimed MUST HAVE transpired.
Part of Page 2, all of Page 3, and the first paragraph on Page 4, have to do with all kinds of requests sent by investigators to Maricopa County officials. The “Arizona Attorney General” notes that he would like Senate Bill 1475 to be passed, so that he will henceforth have a “civil subpoena power.”
Then he can demand all kinds of information – from any counties where people don’t vote for Republicans in large enough numbers. Because there could be “massive FRAUD!” If anyone can find it. Because the AG’s report… um… doesn’t actually say anything about FINDING IT.
Rather, we
are told that “investigations of this magnitude take substantially longer than
the present six months to complete.” Which is interesting, since thousands of
hours have already been devoted to finding the millions of fraudsters who purportedly
stole the election from Donald J. Trump. To put it bluntly, Mr. Blogger is sure
that if you gave him thousands of hours to check ballot signatures, he could
find all kinds of bogus signatures – if IN FACT they existed.
I keep plowing through the report looking for all that fraud. I learn that 79% of Arizona voters cast early ballots in 2018, with that figure rising to 89% in 2020. So voters like early mail-in voting. That meant signatures on over “3 million early ballot affidavits” had to be verified “during a five to six-week period in 2020.” This could – if the process were not “administered diligently,” result in “election officials accepting early ballot affidavits that should not otherwise be approved without further verification.”
So, in Republican-dominated counties you’d face the same problems? And Trump fans could have forged ballot signatures, too?
Correct?
But this report comes from a Republican office holder – who wants to hold onto office in the next election. Page 5 is chock full of large numbers. Maricopa County, for instance, handled 1.9 million mail-in ballots, but rejected only 1,455 for missing signatures and 587 for mismatched signatures. “To be sure,” the AG’s report notes, “Maricopa County has explained that the number of early ballots rejected for mismatched signatures during the 2020 General Election was impacted by the Legislature’s creation of a 5-day post-election cure period for mismatched signatures.”
But what about a DRAMATIC decline in the number of ballots with missing signatures in Maricopa?
Well, “one possible explanation,” and “the AG acknowledges there could be others,” would be that the rat bastards in Maricopa “became less diligent with signature review beginning in 2018.”
Yes…and
there could be OTHER explanations.
Okay, maybe Page 6 will be better. A hundred ballots from Maricopa were chosen at random. Two experts tried to verify signatures; but it was hard in some cases. One expert said six matches were “inconclusive.” The other said “eleven.” Yet the AG report goes on to add: “Neither of the forensic experts found any sign of forgery.”
Okay, no evidence of forgery.
Doesn’t matter!!! According to Mr. Brnovich these findings suggest “that improvement is needed.”
This brings us to a second conclusion in the report: that the “affidavit signature verification system in Arizona, and particularly when applied to Maricopa County, may be insufficient to guard against abuse.”
Well,
egg on my face for not believing in “massive FRAUD” which may exist, but which
the Attorney General has not uncovered.
On to Page 7, and Page 8: More big numbers. Maricopa County officials failed to fill out all the required paperwork for handling mail-in ballots, including those 100,000 to 200,000 ballots deposited in drop-boxes.
So, could it be they were all fraudulent votes? No one knows, for sure. But the paperwork involved was sometimes INCOMPLETE!
On Page 8 and Page 9, we learn that election officials in Maricopa and Pima counties, and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (a Democrat) used $8 million dollars in “private, nongovernmental grant monies” for “various election purposes.” But you can’t put anything past the folks at the AG’s office – who have had six months to uncover “massive FRAUD” in the 2020 election.
“We are carefully reviewing” another report they explain, “to determine if any election laws were violated through the use of these funds.”
At the bottom of page eight, however, you will be relieved to learn that Arizona lawmakers have passed a law to bar the use of such monies to perpetrates such “crimes” as “registering voters.”
Who
might vote FRAUDULENTLY – even though nowhere in this report, so far, is there
proof that anyone voted FRAUDULENTLY.
Page 9 is about REMEDIES!
Such as: increasing penalties for those who vote FRAUDULENTLY (if they are ever found in the droves Trump supporters believe must have done so.)
Finally, the AG says he wants all Arizonans to know that “defending the integrity” of state elections is one of his “top priorities.”
Attorney General Brnovich adds a promise: That Arizona will “ensure that it is easy to vote and hard to cheat.”
“With each passing election,” he continues, “Americans on all sides of the political spectrum have less confidence in the integrity of our elections. This is a crisis that should be addressed immediately with bipartisan solutions grounded in the rule of law.”
In his final conclusion, on Page 11, spilling over to Page 12, he insists, “Public confidence in the fairness of elections is paramount.”
Brnovich doesn’t mention the fact that his favorite tangerine-tinted former president has spent the last seventeen months howling about the STOLEN ELECTION.
And you can tell how much bipartisan effort went into this fine report, which took six months to write, with another coming in six months more, when Attorney General Brnovich concludes,
This dilemma is not relegated to Republicans
and the 2020 election. Democrats spent year in uproar over the 2000 election
after George W. Bush defeated Al Gore. And they viciously questioned President
Trump’s election in 2016. Congressional Democrats also challenged the Electoral
College count several times over the past two decades when their candidate lost
the race. It is dishonest to pretend that the 2020 election concerns are
unprecedented. Both sides have had their share of issues with elections
processes and procedures, and it is time for America’s elected representatives
to put aside political differences and do what is necessary to reassure their
constituents that every legal vote counts.
So, I read the report. And I saw plenty of conjecture. And there MIGHT have been significant voter fraud.
Only Brnovich can’t prove it – and – if you read carefully - doesn’t claim that he did.
True. Big numbers were tossed about in impressive, albeit random fashion. Nowhere does this twelve-page report mention that Maricopa County election officials were almost all Republicans – and their own investigation showed that the original vote tallies they released were accurate. AG Brnovich didn’t seem worried to know that President Trump had called Georgia election officials (also Republicans) and asked them to “find” 11,780 votes he needed to defeat Joe Biden in that state. In Georgia, the Republican Secretary of State said he took Trump’s call to be a threat. Nor did Brnovich mention the Cyber Ninjas recount done in Maricopa County – after Trumplicans, including Kelli Ward demanded it – because they KNEW there had to have been massive criminality involved in Trump getting his ass kicked.
That recount, done by hand, showed that Biden gained 99 votes, whereas Trump lost 261 in Maricopa, which is IRONIC.
(I am now capitalizing for FUN.)
I scratched my noggin’ after perusing the AG’s report. I suppose I could read it again; but I might have to SHOOT myself in the head if I did.
I decided to cheat a little, and simply mention that the Arizona Republican had looked into the story. They noted that Brnovich cites another report on all the VOTER FRAUD he has so far uncovered.
How many fraudsters were out there, stuffing the ballot boxes and running amok? Well, six felons (6), already locked up in Pima County, managed to cast ballots.
And there were these three women (3), who returned recently deceased mothers’ early ballots.
So, yes.
Nine cases (9), including one of those three from Cochise County. Or: “Massive
FRAUD” by any measure.
Then, I think, better check out the AG’s other report. Because I like facts. As of March 28, 2022, we had 35 cases of voter fraud and possible voter fraud identified in Arizona. Cases 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33 and 34 were “ongoing.”
Only ten of the cases (by my count), so far resolved originate in Maricopa, with an eleventh completed, save for sentencing, and two pending.
None of the defendants in any of the counties have been sent to jail; fines and requirements for community service have been levied.
I guess,
when the “massive FRAUD” finally surfaces, I will let my loyal readers (both of
them know)
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FOR NOW, I would be remiss if I did not remind everyone that on November 5, 2020, just two days after the presidential election, Donald Trump Jr. was pushing a plan to steal the election for his father, if the voters rejected his bid for a second term in the White House.
Junior couldn’t yet know the outcome. The votes in North Carolina wouldn’t be completely recorded until November 13. And Don Jr.’s dad would win that battleground state. The president and his allies were also insisting on November 5, that all the votes should be counted in Arizona – where Don Sr. trailed. And in Nevada. But it was an outrage to keep counting votes in Georgia, where he had a lead.
And Pennsylvania.
In weeks
to come, there would be recounts in Michigan and
Wisconsin, and Georgia too. None of those proved anything new. Biden still won –
although a hand recount in one Michigan county gave Trump eleven more votes, and took one of Biden’s away. In
Wisconsin a partial recount demanded by Team Trump showed Biden gaining 87 votes. Whereas the biggest mistake uncovered in
Georgia’s three vote counts (costing Trump 686 votes in Floyd County) was the
work of a Republican official’s blunder, which was kind of fun for
those of us who voted for Biden to see.
So, you had to ask, if you had any sense of decency, when Don Jr. texted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on November 5, and said his dad could ignore the vote totals, throw the election into the House of Representative, or find some other route to a second term in the White House, what he was thinking? “It’s very simple…We have multiple paths,” to victory, Don Jr. claimed and “We control them all.”
What did he mean when he continued, “Republicans control Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina etc we get Trump electors”? What was he thinking when he added, “We either have a vote WE control and WE win OR it gets kicked to Congress 6 January 2021”? What was his intent when he assured Meadows, “We have operational control Total leverage”?
One
former top White House aide, Alyssa Farrah Griffin, tells Jake Tapper of Fox News, that after it
was clear that the votes were going against the president “there was a level of
desperation among those closest too [the president] to hang onto power in any
way possible.” This text, she notes, shows that Trump’s loyalists were going to
use “every lever,” state and federal, to “cling to power.”
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Alyssa Farah Griffin, Former White House Director of Strategic Communications. |
What they didn’t control, however, were the fair vote counts, which were running against poor President Trump.
And this story isn’t “Fake News” either. Don Jr.’s lawyer admitted the message was sent; but he claimed that “given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded.”
Which
would mean Don Jr. was moronic at best, and not intent on breaking any laws and
stealing an election, at WORST.
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