I wonder if they ever found any bamboo.
They threw it in the water.
Me ol’ bamboo, me ol’ bamboo
You better never bother with me ol’ bamboo
You can have me hat or me bumbershoot
But you better never bother with me ol’ bamboo
There was great excitement at Cyber Ninjas when a large number of ballots had a similar stain. Analysis determined that the stains were, in fact, taco sauce. They thought they had evidence of Mexico’s involvement until they realized it was from the ninjas coming back from Taco Bell.
I had assumed that they wrote their report, finding an extra 100,000 votes for Trump, before they even took the job. My only question now is what made them change their minds. Fear of being accused of fraud. Notice that Texas (which Trump won) is prepared to follow AZ down the same rabbit hole. And maybe PA and others.
They couldn’t credibly change the facts. Republicans learned the most important lesson, which is if you want to sell an election lie, suppress even more voters and muddy the waters as the votes are coming in, not after they’ve already been counted, reported, and certified. They probably won’t fail next time
Maybe they caught a glimpse of Dominion’s lawyers grinning and cracking their knuckles.
Bambooo in the waaateeer, fire in the sky.
I was thinking of this one:
So even the most extreme hyperpartisan bunch of nitwits couldn’t find proof that Biden lost Arizona. The logical next step in Bizzaro world? Make a fraudit of Texas! Demand a recount of a state you already won! The brilliance of it all!
“Oops, it looks like Biden won Texas too. Awkward!”
I confess I didn’t exactly see that coming. I suspect they changed their angle after it was pointed out that if they were going to come up with different results they’d have be able to actually prove it in a court of law. For some reason the standard of proof required is different between the courts and Fox & Friends.
This is really an important point. Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger aren’t paragons of election virtue, they were ( and remain ) epic cheaters that are willing to rig the game as much as they can to win.
You know that if there was any conceivable way they could’ve “found” extra votes for Trump, they would’ve. But they can’t just say “we found 12,000 extra votes”, they’d have to explain where they came from and why they were missed.
They fact that they couldn’t is a strong testament to the security of our elections.
In this particular case it may also have had something to do with the strong pushback from Maricopa Republican officials who had a real stake in not being made fools of. Compliant local authorities might have made manufacturing evidence more workable.
Reuters interviewed nine of the 15 declared Republican candidates for secretary of state in five battleground states – Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada – and reviewed public statements by all of the candidates. Ten of the 15 have either declared that the 2020 election was stolen or called for their state’s results to be invalidated or further investigated.
These are the people who could decide whether to accept election results, or to let House Republicans select the president over the objections of voters.
I can’t tell if this is a joke or if it actually happened.
I checked Foxnews.com to review its coverage. There are currently no articles on the site about the Arizona audit.
My landlord is watching something about the Arizona audit right now, and they’re talking about voting irregularities that call the result into question. What the heck are they talking about, so I can be prepared when he inevitably goes “Ah-HA!” at me?
According to the Arizona Republic:
I suspect that there’s nothing to any of that, but it lets them talk about “things need to be looked into!” for a while longer.
This whole thing is sort of reminiscent of the newspapers’ recount of the 2000 Florida votes.