How Republicans recount ballots in Arizona. Putin must be proud!

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@johncitizen1 Here, there are no layers and there are no secrets. Its in the open – we know what they are doing and who is doing it.
Official observers having to sign non-disclosure agreements. I mean this is the stuff of slap stick comedy, but this is our real world today.

No completion date in sight.

Rachel Maddow looks at what is happening with the pro-Trump ballot-examining spectacle in Maricopa County, Arizona that state senate Republicans are calling an "audit," where observers are reportedly not allowed to share their observations, and a
 
special (?) camera is being used on ballots to look for traces of bamboo to confirm a theory that 40,000 fake ballots were flown in from China.
 

 

 

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In the end will they have learned a dang thing?

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@citizenjohn1. "Here, there are no layers and there are no secrets. Its in the open – we know what they are doing and who is doing it."
Then why does it take a court order to force this information being grudgingly shared.
Arizona vote recount contractor releases privacy policies By BOB CHRISTIE. April 29, 2021

… The Senate and Cyber Ninjas had claimed the policies and procedures for recounting the presidential and U.S. Senate votes in Maricopa County were shielded under legislative immunity and that the documents were trade secrets, but the judge said that’s not the case.

https: //apnews. com/article/arizona-voting-rights-election-2020-election-recounts-business-92c401975a8d0fc16a94ece79b0f310f

 


By Rosalind S. Helderman. May 5, 2021 at 5:18 p.m.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-recount-observers/2021/05/05/b807c990-adc3-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html

Ballots have been left unattended on counting tables.
Laptop computers sit abandoned, at times — open, unlocked and unmonitored.

Procedures are constantly shifting, with untrained workers using different rules to count ballots.
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) on Wednesday sent a letter outlining a string of problems that she said observers from her office have witnessed at a Republican-led recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona’s largest county.
In the six-page letter, Hobbs wrote that elections are “governed by a complex framework of laws and procedures designed to ensure accuracy, security, and transparency” but that the procedures governing the ongoing recount in Phoenix “ensure none of those things.” …


released info:

www. cyberninjas. com/static/20210429155650/Wake-TSI-Counting-Floor-Policies. pdf

www. cyberninjas. com/static/20210429172814/CyFIR-Digital-Evidence-Handling-Policies. pdf

www. cyberninjas. com/static/20210429155651/CyFIR-AZ-Audit-Evidence-Handling-Procedure-Modification-Memo. pdf

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Arizona Is Holding Yet Another 2020 Recount. The Company Running It Makes It Even Worse. Cyber Ninjas are a few katanas short of inspiring confidence. BY AARON MAK, MAY 03, 2021

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Now, six months after the election, Arizona’s Republican-controlled state Legislature has ordered a highly unusual audit. The effort is fueled by unsubstantiated accusations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 vote count from former President Donald Trump and other conservative figures. Trump has reportedly become obsessed with the Arizona recount, bringing it up constantly in private conversations and speeches.

In an even more bizarre move, the Arizona Legislature has hired a Florida-based cybersecurity company called Cyber Ninjas to lead the recount for $150,000. The company has no experience in elections, and its CEO helped to spread “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theories in the run-up to the Capitol riot; it is now in possession of Maricopa’s ballots and voting equipment. Guessing you have some questions!

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Oh lordie the CyberNinjas have God in their back pockets.

“As a Christian company, we also believe we have a responsibility to serve, as Christ served. Helping the USCC is a great way to be a blessing to others, while helping combat evil hackers,” he said in 2014.
 
So the CEO of the company auditing this election believes it was stolen?

Yes. Logan was a little-known figure until Cyber Ninjas took charge of the Arizona recount. It then came to light that he’s had a history of authoring and amplifying debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

Through his now-deleted Twitter account, Logan extensively retweeted and posted false allegations of widespread voter fraud. “The parallels between the statistical analysis of Venezuela and this year’s election are astonishing,” he tweeted in December. “I’m ashamed about how few republicans are talking about it.”

Advocates of the “Stop the Steal” movement baselesslyhold that voting systems used in the 2020 race were actually created years earlier in Venezuela to rig elections in favor of the now-deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez.

Logan also retweeted election misinformation from prominent figures in the QAnon movement like former 8chan administrator Ron Watkins and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. A tweet he shared from Watkins maintained that there were 200,000 pro-Trump votes from Maricopa that weren’t counted. …


And on and on it goes.

Sooooo maybe not the company you’d trust to conduct a fair and accurate recount! Is Cyber Ninjas somehow overcoming those self-imposed hurdles and exceeding expectations? ...

How did Arizona get to this point? Weren’t there already some recounts? …

Does anyone really still believe the 2020 election could be overturned? … (These people are never about reality, it’s about facades and ME FIRST)

OK, so when will we know the results of the recount? …

Arizona recount: Who are Cyber Ninjas and Doug Logan, and what do they believe?


 

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Yup, Putin must feel tremendous satisfaction, his investment in Donald Trump paid off big time, and keeps on giving.

I wonder if the Christian nations feels the same sense of satisfaction with their Demi-God the Trumpkin and his band of vandals.

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What was the criteria and vetting process that the AZ Legislature used to pick the Cyber Ninjas?

Dirty knees and DNA evidence on trumps ring?

 

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What was the criteria and vetting process that the AZ Legislature used to pick the Cyber Ninjas?

Dirty knees and DNA evidence on trumps ring?


Yes, that and stupidity.

You must have heard that they are now looking for traces of bamboo in the ballots. It comes from a reliable source that 40,000 ballots were printed in China and flown into Arizona and secretly stuffed in voting boxes. The only way to detect the fraud is by the traces of bamboo in the ballots. This is why they have only been able to inspect a very small percent of the votes . Each ballot must be microscopically examined and it is anticipated that the process may go on well into summer.

Of course during this time Trump firmly remains the duly elected president!

 

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MSNBC. May 6th, PM

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs

sent a letter to the Arizona senate raising concerns over counting errors and ballot security issues observers witnessed

as the Justice Department warned the audit might be violating federal law.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs tells Lawrence O’Donnell that “this whole audit is a sham” and voters “across the political spectrum” are flooding her office with concerned calls.


 

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Only in America can this happen.

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Only in America can this happen.
That's a pretty stupid meaningless turd. John the turd tosser.

Here, let’s talk legalities,

 

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The pathway to barbarism has been laid decades ago when it comes american capitalism

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Sure, heck it was done long before that. Think the age of Western exploration, exploitation and colonialist terror. War profiteers of 19th and 20th centuries and so on. We just happened to be the finest richest piece of real estate in the world, with the most space and resources to take advantage of. So here, people got to become especially excessive, and gluttonous and avaricious, and now with trump, Me First and feeding my greed, while disregarding all others, has become the default setting for a huge portion of this nation and the sole dream of trumpsterism.

Of course we’re doomed. That doesn’t mean we should get on the band wagon and help speed up this ride to hell!

What does @johncitizen1 have to offer??? The trump promise of death threats, bullying and absolute disregard for honesty, rule of law, and resentment towards all but your own incoherent tribe of incorrigible deplorables?

 

PS. Let’s get the latest on this unfolding story of a nation under siege by Totalitarian Trumpkin’s Insurrectionists.

 

Officials have raised concerns over the handling of 2020 presidential election ballots in the Arizona audit.

Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods and former local election official Jennifer Morrell join Ayman.


 

 

In Arizona’s Bizarre Election Audit, Ballots Are Being Checked For Bamboo And Election Chief Has Been Assigned Protection Nicholas Reimann, Forbes Staff, May 7, 2021

www. forbes. com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/05/07/in-arizonas-bizarre-election-audit-ballots-are-being-checked-for-bamboo-and-election-chief-has-been-assigned-protection/?sh=5b281591183b

KEY FACTS
… Friday marks two weeks since Arizona started the recount of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, which was ordered by the GOP-controlled state Senate to determine whether widespread fraud took place in the 2020 presidential election and U.S. Senate race.

… The ballots are being hand counted, and an audit official earlier this week said at least some of the ballots are being scanned for bamboo fibers, in line with an absurd conspiracy theory that 40,000 forged ballots were shipped into the state from Asia.

… On Thursday, the Justice Department sent a letter to local officials warning the audit might be violating federal law since ballots have been handed over to a private company.

… That company, Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, has no election experience.

… Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan has pushed a conspiracy theory that a company tied to long-dead Venezuelan strongman dictator Hugo Chavez somehow rigged voting machines against former President Donald Trump.

… Cyber Ninjas was ordered late last week to release information on how it planned to maintain voter privacy, after a state judge said he was “not yet persuaded” privacy was being protected.

 

KEY BACKGROUND
The audit appears solely driven by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that widespread voter fraud kept him from winning the 2020 presidential election, and Trump has said he’s monitoring the audit and expects “the results will be startling!” The audit is solely reviewing ballots from the presidential election and the U.S. Senate race, both of which Democrats won. It’s also only looking at ballots in Arizona’s largest county, Maricopa, which includes Phoenix and its sprawling suburbs.

WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
It’s unclear exactly how the audit is being funded and who is paying for it. The state Senate is paying $150,000, but Logan said there’s also outside funding.

FURTHER READING
Arizona’s Presidential Election Recount (Yes, That One) Back On After Democrats Refuse To Pay $1 Million (Forbes)

They’re Still Counting—But Here’s Why Arizona’s Election Recount Is Causing Concern (Forbes)

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Only in America can this happen. -- citizen
I really don't want to bait you John, but that's a bizarre comment. It's usually Americans who go to other countries and observe their elections to help them detect fraud, actual fraud. Trump has figured out a way to act fraudulently right out in the open.
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“It’s usually Americans who go to other countries and observe their elections to help them detect fraud, actual fraud.”

 

Youre kidding arent you?

 

Foreign electoral intervention - Wikipedia.

https://rozenbergquarterly.com/noam-chomsky-on-the-long-history-of-us-meddling-in-foreign-elections/

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/history-us-intervention-foreign-elections

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Misdirection.

And doesn’t justify what’s happening in the democratic atrocity going on in Arizona.

 

The Cyber Ninja Clowns Are Coming to a State Capitol Near You The farce out in Arizona fits into a larger assault on Americans' faith in democracy.

By Charles P. Pierce
Apr 29, 2021

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… Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports that El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago has become a big fan of the Cyber Ninjas.

Ensconced at his private club in Florida, Trump asks aides for updates about the process multiple times a day, advisers said, expressing particular interest in the use of UV lights to scrutinize Maricopa’s ballots — a method that has bewildered election experts, who say it could damage the votes. “He talks about it constantly,” said one person who recently visited Mar-a-Lago and listened to Trump discuss the recount for about 45 minutes, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
If you’re wondering why we’re updating this sucker every day, it’s because I think it’s coming to a state capitol near you. Clearly, the people behind it don’t give a damn how much damage they do to American democracy. The good people at the Brennan Center caught on to this early on, and they took the liberty on Thursday of writing to the Department of Justice asking the DOJ to send federal election moderators to Arizona to observe the Cyber Ninjas shenanigans. From the letter: …

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a36292462/cyber-ninjas-arizona/

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Like i said it has come to this from the decay of american capitalism And never a word from Cc about the Joe Manchins of the world who say democrats must work with Republicans to get policy passed the House.

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Youre kidding arent you? -- JC
No. Is it possible that both of these things can be going on at the same time? It's almost like we have competing powers within the government, like there are two parties and polar opposites get elected and different interpretations of the Constitution are being discussed constantly. How could anyone have known about that? How can we be aware of a government that uses every form of communication to tell us about this?
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And never a word from Cc about the Joe Manchins of the world who say democrats must work with Republicans to get policy passed the House. -- JC
There is no rule that anyone here must comment on anything other than whatever they choose. There isn't a logical, ethical, or moral reason for why anyone should make a comment about any particular congress person.
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@lausten

There is no rule that anyone here must comment on anything other than whatever they choose.

If there were, you and I would be in trouble, because we don’t comment on everything except what we feel like commenting on.

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“There is no rule that anyone here must comment on anything other than whatever they choose.”

Its an observation you can challenge or disagree with rather than be so dismissive