One of the funniest things I remember recently was when she was found innocent in court because her defense was basically "you have to be an idiot to believe any of the crap I have been peddling. It's obvious all the crap I peddle isn't serious or truthful"
Doubtful. The media has spent months decrying the audit. With the audit showing that it was just a double checking and not some plot to end democracy, all those with their hair on fire over it being allowed are looking pretty foolish.
Audits are used all the time in all industries. I don't understand the idea of the vote being above having independent eyes look at the process. Audits make the process better and more reliable. Why wouldn't we want that?
Audits and quality control are not a problem - when looked through an independent lens (if such a thing could exist in this day and age).
By definition, partisan audits are not payed for by the taxpayers. They are privately funded.
It can be not helpful because the reason for doubting the election was never about the facts in the first place, and more facts won't change many strongly-held, factually ignorant opinions. Just the other day Trump was saying the Democrats wanted to hide the results of the audit.
I said "helpful", not "resolve". There are always going to be zealots who cannot be reached, but if there is public opinion polling in Maricopa County over acceptance of the election I'm thinking this audit will move the needle.
Not if Trump says that he was robbed - and he will regardless of any fact or report partisan or otherwise.
A needle movement of 0.5% is so small as to be worthless. We''ll see if this one is significant.
I think we need another audit of Arizona. You never can be too sure.
Sure. Why not? At this point there have been thousands of tests of Einstein's theory of relativity, and scientists continue to think up new ones. Despite never finding a single flaw in thousands of tests, new grants get issued and new experiments happen. If someone wants to pay for it and someone wants to look then why not let them even if it is the ten thousandth time? All it does is reinforce the previous work, and that is exactly what we want. Declaring things off limits is what creates doubt. I do not believe this most recent audit in AZ did any damage but I do think stakeholders actively discouraging investigation absolutely has. It fosters an idea of "why are they putting so much effort in discouraging this if they have nothing to hide?"
Exactly. Every state should have audits over and over again until the next election so we can be absolutely sure. (Although even then we couldn't be totally sure. I mean I personally didn't see every person in America's vote so I can never really be sure).
Actually the reason I haven't seen much in the media yet is because it hasn't been officially announced. The results were just leaked.
Why stop at the next election? If a group wants to look at the 1980 election and we still have the stuff lying around, what is the harm in it?
The harm is obvious. If people are doubting results then they are getting upset and doubting our whole political system. Why does that matter? Well 1-6-21 is why.
