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from the same website:

https://thepoliticalwarroom.com/joel-greenberg-has-flipped-on-congressman-matt-gaetz/

from the same website:

https://thepoliticalwarroom.com/joel-greenberg-has-flipped-on-congressman-matt-gaetz/

Worse than 9/11?

“The DELETION of an entire database and critical Election files of Maricopa County is unprecedented,” Trump said.

Or, as people with actual elections experience say, not at all unusual. Just because a file has been deleted, they say, doesn't mean the data is gone.

Ken Bennett, the Senate’s liaison to the audit, on Friday walked back his earlier claim that the county destroyed evidence, conceding there might be a reasonable explanation for why the files were deleted.

“Maybe it was deleted because it was a duplicate of something that was elsewhere,” he told The Arizona Republic’s Jen Fifield.

Gee, maybe Bennett and Fann should have found out before announcing to the world that Maricopa County officials are corrupt.

But hey, mission accomplished.

The county plans to hold a public meeting on Monday “to refute lies and lay out the facts”.

Making our election process a fixed scam? Yes. That strikes at the heart of American liberty.

I asked you in another thread a few days back how deep the previous audits went. In typical chikkinschidt fashion you hid from the question. You hid from the question because you know any previous audit was superficial in comparison to what's going on right now.

The FBI had investigated Paul Manafort a number of times for tax issues prior to the Russian Hoax Investigation. They investigated him again and found tax infractions. By your logic, they should have left him alone.

That aside, even with this dodge, you didn't deliver a cogent explanation for being opposed to the audit.

In November, Maricopa conducted a hand count of a sample of ballots under state law and found no discrepancies in the county. Earlier this year, Maricopa County also ordered a forensic audit of votes, which was conducted by three separate firms, including a certified public accountancy and two voting-systems labs accredited by the federal Election Assistance Commission. The audit searched for hacking of machines, vote-switching, and malicious software, and found none. All of this was done under the law as laid out by the Arizona legislature.

What's your point? Greenberg flipped? It's almost as if you are acknowledging that the source is capable of simply delivering unadulterated news rather than propaganda. That didn't help your case.

Although the process has been called an “audit” or a “recount,” it doesn’t match the procedures laid out in state law for either of those. To conduct the audit, the state hired a Florida software-security firm called Cyber Ninjas. The company refused to tell me whether it has any experience with election audits, and its website, while featuring an impressive array of ninja stock photos, offers no indications that it is qualified to conduct election-security reviews. The only apparent reason for Cyber Ninjas’ selection is that the company’s founder, Doug Logan, was a noisy proponent of “Stop the Steal” theories of fraud in the election. (Logan has not responded to my requests for comment or an interview.)

The state Senate allocated just $150,000 for the audit, far too little to cover all the costs. So despite recently banning boards of elections from using private money, the Senate has turned to private donors to fill the gap. Cyber Ninjas hasn’t disclosed all of its funding sources, though some have emerged. Unsurprisingly, much of it has come from people invested in the idea of fraud. Patrick Byrne, the eccentric former head of Overstock.com, has donated $1 million and set a goal to raise almost $2 million more. Employees of One America News Network, the conspiracist pro-Trump news outlet, have also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the outlet has been given special access as the official broadcast partner of the audit.

The results of this audit so far have been exactly what one might expect from an ill-defined process led by an apparently unqualified and partisan actor. Cyber Ninjas tried to avoid even explaining its putative procedures for the audit, labeling them a trade secret, until a federal judge ordered the company to release them. Not only is the process bad; it’s also likely to run far longer than anticipated. The state Senate initially planned for the count to finish by May 14, but at the current pace, it could take months more.

“We know from day-to-day observation that even the procedures they set forth that they were going to use, they are not following,” said Patrick, who was previously a longtime elections official in Maricopa County.

Usually audits and recounts are conducted with teams of people from different parties to ensure fairness, but most observers are Republicans, and Cyber Ninjas has not made clear the arrangements for reviewing ballots. Some of the tables where counting is occurring aren’t being watched at all. Cyber Ninjas has required observers to sign a nondisclosure agreement, which defeats the purpose of having observers present.

One official told a reporter this week that auditors are examining ballots for bamboo fibers, apparently because of a baseless conspiracy theory about China flying in 40,000 fake ballots. Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state working with the state Senate, also told the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit that workers were using UV lights to examine ballots for watermarks, apparently a nod to a QAnon theory about watermarked fraudulent ballots. (What sort of fraudster watermarks their own misdeeds?)

Has anyone ever offered one valid reason why they are opposed to the audit? If I were a Democrat, I'd want it to shut Trump's whiny ass up. All Democrats are certain it was accurate after all. If I were Dominion, I'd be happy to put the integrity of my machines on display.

Why don,t we just count the votes a hundred times until the Republicans get what they want. The vote was counted according to State law and recounted then

The Secretary of State a Republican Certified the vote. Biden won. That is all the law allows, what they are doing now is illegal. Then the Republicans hired a

Partison group associated with Qanon to come in and do a illegal count. If the Democrats do not like that count do they get to count 4 times to see if they can win?

See where this goes when you do not follow state law? Games over President Biden won good luck in 2024.

Only a cheat wants to keep counting the votes until it comes out his way and then he will block any more vote counts. I,m telling you, you have to follow the law.

that was done . Biden won election over.