https://www.resetera.com/threads/fascism-will-be-normalized-wapo-calls-the-trump-assault-on-the-2020-voting-ballots-audits.437732/From the actual article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pennsylvania-2020-ballot-audits/2021/06/06/4e456952-bfe0-11eb-b26e-53663e6be6ff_story.htmlThe previously unreported lobbying foreshadowed a playbook now in use in Arizona and increasingly being sought in other communities across the country as Trump supporters clamor for reviews of the ballots cast last fall,
citing false claims that the vote was corrupted by fraud.
The audits are being pushed by a loose affiliation of GOP lawmakers, lawyers and
self-described election experts, backed by private fundraising campaigns whose donors are unknown.Wake TSI submitted a draft report in February to Fulton officials
declaring the election had been “well run” and “conducted in a diligent and effective manner,” county documents show.
The early attempt to launch
off-the-books audits in Pennsylvania counties shows the relentlessness of the campaign by Trump’s allies to
overturn the election — an assault that began before the polls closed and has only expanded in the months since a pro-Trump
mob attacked the U.S. Capitol, trying to prevent Biden’s win from being formalized.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was pressuring the Justice Department to investigate
unfounded claims about vulnerabilities
Biden closed Trump’s lead and then pulled ahead — a phenomenon that political experts had predicted would occur.
The judge rejected the suit, comparing
the legal theories stitched together by Trump’s campaign to “Frankenstein’s monster.” On appeal,
a three-judge panel — all of them appointed by Republicans — also rejected the challenge to Pennsylvania’s vote. “Charges of unfairness are serious.
But calling an election unfair does not make it so,”Jean Foschi, the county’s Democratic commissioner, said in an interview that she was confused and dismayed by the request, particularly because the state already conducted formal routine election reviews.
“It was like this rogue thing,” she said. “Those election machines are state and federally certified. Why would we let a private company come in and
mess around with them?”“I can’t speak for other counties, but it sure as hell didn’t happen in Cumberland County.”
They said they believed Fulton’s
elections were secure and well administered.“If there were
no discrepancies, what is the reason for auditing the mail-in ballots?
“It just seemed to me, why are they auditing it, when they
overwhelmingly certified it?”
Trump’s
attacks on the integrity of the election were on stark display. supporters
stormed the U.S. Capitol . . Late that night, after the
marauders were cleared from the building,
report concluded that the county had “no anomalous or unusual incidents reported during the election process” and that the election was “well run, followed all Commonwealth and Federal guidelines, and was conducted in a diligent and effective manner.”
Dominion Voting Systems, an election machine company that has been the target of
unfounded conspiracy theories by Trump’s supporters since November.
“It’s not right for anyone to be questioning the legitimacy of the election
without any kind of
evidence — or even evidence to the contrary.”
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Obviously you can tell that Excel didn't bother reading the article as it uses plenty of language describing Trump's idea as dumb and casting his supports as idiots. But I can also tell you that it's the first time she even
semi-attempted at informing herself about the news. Since Friday I'm read at least 25 articles by a wide sampling of news papers and online liberal blogs and they all use the word
audit. She's read one headline and thinks she has a point to make.
