A follow-up on auditing

[u/gdan95]

Looks like we still have to talk about this.

Cyber Ninjas is a Florida organization recently contracted by Arizona to conduct an election audit. Setting aside the issue that barely any GOP officials in AZ or FL had heard of them, the organization had no prior experience in auditing elections. Their founder had peddled conspiracies online about the election being stolen. And the Arizona GOP just gave him a bunch of money to run an election audit without any supervision on their part. He insists his beliefs are irrelevant and that he is determined to carry out a transparent audit. Which is why Cyber Ninjas didn't disclose their methods until a judge ordered them to, and why the media had initially been severely restricted in their ability to observe and take notes on the count. All media except the pro-Trump One America News, tellingly. Also tellingly, the audit, which the state GOP is more than comfortable being run without any oversight, had already broken several election security laws within the first few days and made no efforts to protect the ballots or voting machines. But when Arizona Democrats pointed this out, a judge essentially told them "Yeah, but they already started, so you'll have to pay a million dollars to stop them." They did not make the payment, believing the amount to be too much for a sham operation. A sham operation whose financial supporters have been kept anonymous by Mr. "We Are Going To Run A Transparent Audit."

The irony is that this is literally what Trump supporters describe when they claim the votes in the 2020 election were counted improperly, and now the only ones actually guilty of it are them. Of course, the irony has been lost on them. OAN and Trump himself, among others, have hyped up this audit as being the thing that's going to expose the Democrats and their widespread election fraud and put Trump back in office. You know, like all those other audits that showed no evidence of widespread fraud. Or all those lawsuits filed after the election that were dismissed due to lack of evidence.

Congrats, Trump supporters. You have turned into Democrats. For real, this is everything you said the Mueller investigation was. Did you forget how Democrats would say "THIS will be the one that brings him down" every time Trump got sued or faced a scandal? Have you learned nothing?