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Link to tweet
Maricopa County
@maricopacounty
Chairman @jacksellers: "As Chairman of this Board, I just want to make it clear I will not be responding to any more requests from this sham process. Finish what you're calling an audit and be ready to defend your report in a court of law."
1:53 PM · May 17, 2021
Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)The letter is detailed, precise, and full of facts.
But I am sure the "auditors" and their supporters will focus on the fact that a fellow named "Bill Gates" is one of the signatories.....it's a CONSPIRACY, I TELL 'YA!!!!! ( )
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Volaris
(10,270 posts)AZ8theist
(5,456 posts)I just read that letter start to finish, and if that doesn't expose the utter IDIOCY of this so-called "audit", nothing will.
Cyber Scumbags and the Arizona Repuke Party are a complete fucking joke.
They are made out to be complete fucking fools, point by point. No wonder, their "god", Benedict Dotard is crowing about this: it's a COMPLETE LIE and SCAM. The exact ideals he has lived his entire despicable life by....
cab67
(2,992 posts)lastlib
(23,213 posts)Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)... who are fundraising hard-earned money from our fellow citizens even as your contractors parade around the Coliseum, hunting or bamboo and something they call kinematic artifacts while shining purple lights for effect....
pg. 2
cynical_idealist
(360 posts)Very enlightening
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)lame54
(35,284 posts)Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)lame54
(35,284 posts)Unwind Your Mind
(2,041 posts)Is it just me?
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)"The Honorable Karen Fann"
Oh, really?
I would have LOVED to have been a fly on the wall when she opened that letter...and then when she shared the contents with whoever she felt wouldn't mock her for years to come.
Iggo
(47,549 posts)SKKY
(11,803 posts)It contains facts. And when you talk about how SQL services act when a server is shut down, or metadata, well, let's be honest you lose a lot of people. The kind of people what watch Fox, Newsmax, and OANN. Bamboo fibers in ballots are easier to understand than fairly complex IT technology. The Tweet that read, and I'm paraphrasing, "Finish your audit, and be prepared to defend it in court." Now THAT'S the message we need to send.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)Words have meaning - that is all
Caliman73
(11,730 posts)This was never an audit. It was another attempt to muddy the waters and keep the false narrative of the "stolen" election going. When the media uses right wing framing, it gives their stupidity some legitimacy. At very least they should have put, "so called" in front of the phrase, at very least.
malaise
(268,930 posts)These fools know nothing about auditing - M$Greedia is responsible for a lot of this shit.
malaise
(268,930 posts)These fools know nothing about auditing - M$Greedia is responsible for a lot of this shit.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)ShazzieB
(16,370 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)machoneman
(4,006 posts)Geez, Louise talk about burying the burying the hatchet!
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Smashing ribs, severing veins and arteries and very close to ending life. A truly hatchet-burying exercise!
Skittles
(153,149 posts)reminds me when Hawaii officials stopped responding to inquiries regarding Obama's birth certificate. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Well done!!!
lindysalsagal
(20,670 posts)niyad
(113,259 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,574 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)liberalla
(9,238 posts)BRAVO!!! Yay Jack Sellers!
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)Or am I thinking of someone else?
Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)sdfernando
(4,930 posts)That was a JOY to read!
Jon King
(1,910 posts)Like she said, bring your fake audit into court. Its not going to change one mind either way. Just ignore it publically, let them put out their fake findings, then the election board Chairman should sue them for slander and force them into court. They will be made fools of like the other 60 times.
Olafjoy
(937 posts)Frauditors? Bless their hearts!!
ShazzieB
(16,370 posts)I love the way this letter pulls absolutely no punches and tells the perpetrators of this clown show (as Rachel Maddow has been calling it) exactly how ridiculous the whole thing is.
The final paragraph is a masterpiece in itself:
"It is time to end this. For the good of the Senate, for the good of the Country
and for the good of the Democratic institutions that define us as Americans."
BOOM!
Hekate
(90,645 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,574 posts)SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Well worth the time to read it completely. It totally dismantles all of the reich-wing 'Qonspiracy' theories with facts, making lucid explanations on every point. It goes into detailed explanations (in short, easy to read words, for the frauditors benefit) of how the process works and how the people involved are in completely over their heads and in no way qualified to 'audit' a Monopoly game, much less an election.
Should be distributed far and wide.
I'm hoping that some of the people I served with and once regarded as highly intelligent and extremely logical people before they fall into tRump's MAGA-world rabbit hole will read it and have their eyes opened, at least a little bit.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,129 posts)Takket
(21,560 posts)like a good book, i couldn't put it down. it is an absolutely excellent fact based response while at the same time necessarily pointing out how amateurish and politically motivated this entire process is.
The author likens what is happening in the "audit" to someone that has used Windows waltzing into Microsoft world HQ and demanding to know how they write code without having any knowledge at all of how these procedures work.
And drumpf voters still stupidly believe with all these security procedures in place that people can just dump a thousand photocopied ballots from China drop box and expect them to be counted.
jmowreader
(50,553 posts)From pages 10 to 11:
"Your chosen 'auditors,' the Cyber Ninjas, are certainly many things. But 'accredited by the EAC' is not one of them. Regardless, we cannot give you a password that we do not possess any more than we can give you the formula for Coca Cola."
DiamondShark
(787 posts)Yeah, they are hiding the formula for Coca Cola. I knew it!
JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)Quick Donald Trump... come up with a snappy nickname for them.
liberalmediaaddict
(766 posts)I admire our election officials more and more for standing up to this Big Lie insanity. The letter is detailed and backed up with facts and I guarantee Trump, the Cyber Ninjas and the MAGA morons in the AZ Senate won't understand or believe a word of it even if they actually bother to read it.
Wild blueberry
(6,623 posts)As a poll worker and chief election inspector for our small town, I cannot imagine handing out ballots like the AZ Senate did. Isn't that illegal, as a violation of election law? They should also be indicted, as should the judge who said Let 'er rip.
liberalla
(9,238 posts)Definitely a KEEPER!