Just read this article from the New York Times on line and followed the link therein to the report from the actual auditors who audited the sham audit in Arizona. From the Times article:
The circuslike review of the 2020 vote commissioned by Arizona Republicans took another wild turn on Friday when veteran election experts charged that the very foundation of its findings — the results of a hand count of 2.1 million ballots — was based on numbers so unreliable that they appear to be guesswork rather than tabulations.
The organizers of the review “made up the numbers,” the headline of the experts’ report reads.
The experts, a data analyst for the Arizona Republican Party and two retired executives of an election consulting firm in Boston, said in their report that workers for the investigators failed to count thousands of ballots in a pallet of 40 ballot-filled boxes delivered to them in the spring. (Emphasis added)
From the report itself, the final two conclusions:
- Having zero experience in election audits, the Ninjas announcement that they had confirmed, to a high degree of accuracy, the election results of the second largest county in the country is, we believe, laughable.
- The assertion that Trump had lost 261 votes was, we believe, a “shiny object” designed to convey believability to an otherwise unbelievable hoax.
A few days ago I observed in passing that there was no reason to believe anything the Cyber Ninjas had to say, but was somewhat mystified about why the Arizonans went about this exercise in the first place. This latest bit of news raises the question anew in a slightly different form.
I read the report at the link, and I confess that I didn’t follow it completely, but I’ve no reason to doubt that their conclusions are accurate, particularly conclusion five that is excerpted above. It would be interesting to know the backstory to all this, and what communications passed between the Cyber Grifters Ninjas and the Arizona Senators who wasted tons of state money on this sham. Could it be that they realized that they had put themselves into a no-win situation should they actually try to come out with obviously fraudulent results and that they reached an agreement to produce the “shiny object” to which the report refers in order to put an end to the process, get it behind them, and proceed to the more important business of suppressing the vote in future Arizona elections?
It certainly appears that something along those lines must have happened, so the question now is whether this new report will have any impact. My guess is that, alas, it won’t. It will be ignored and forgotten, and the Arizona politicians who participated in this fraud will go, unhindered, about their business of destroying our democracy.
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