@manhandler said in Why try to suppress the Audit? If it's all good...:
@bi4smooth It's not a straw man, which you keep blabbering on about. Not one Democrat has challenged the fact that the audit is on 13 or so cameras, live for the world to see, totally transparent, triple checked. The only thing they can say is that the Republicans are funding it so therefore it's not legit. It's not only that, but they're giving tours to anyone interested to see if they aren't doing it right. They are doing everything under a microscope and showing everyone everything they're finding, so the idea that you'd complain is ridiculous.
You don't actually read what I type, do you.
That's why I referenced a "straw man"...
The Arizona elections were already audited - by professionals - TWICE. Including a manual recount.
This ain't that - but my complaint isn't that it's happening... it's that it is so clearly partisan, and invested solely in proving that something DID happen - not in determining whether or not something happened.
Auditors don't go in looking for some specific cheat... they go in looking for the POSSIBILITY of a cheat! And they are (by their code of ethics) supposed to be just as open to the idea that there is no cheat, as that there is one.
This ain't that.
Republicans - more and more, even those in AZ - are beginning to say the same things...
Oh, and the millions of dollars being spent (mostly earned and kept by the miscreant owner of "Cyber Ninjas", Doug Logan - a Trumpite who said at the beginning of the process that he was there to find the fraud (not determine if there WAS fraud).
But this dude has been collecting $MILLIONS in "donations" - even though the VAST MAJORITY of the people doing the "auditing" are volunteers (e.g. unpaid).
And to be clear, the Republican Party of AZ is not a part of this farce, it is a group of AZ Republican Senators who are driving this "Crazy bus"...
But there is nothing illegal about this fraud (yes, in my mind, the one committing the fraud here is Doug Logan & Cyber Ninjas)... at least not yet. Once the precedent of this "hits the road" - and Democrats start doing the same things in future elections, this shit will come to a stop. "Freedom of Information" will cease to include actual ballots... (just my prediction).
But, for now, it is perfectly legal, if a colossal waste of time... esp since this is a "witchhunt" more than an "audit" (for the reasons I laid out above).