FACT FOCUS: A false narrative of 74K extra votes in Arizona

[Nevilledog]

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Brahm Resnik
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AZ Senate President Karen Fann gave Cyber Ninja a platform to make a claim that wasn’t just false, but reckless, bordering on criminal. The damage to our elections can’t be undone.

FACT FOCUS: A false narrative of 74K extra votes in Arizona
Cyber Ninjas, the cybersecurity consulting firm hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to oversee a partisan review of the 2020 election, is pushing a false narrative that Maricopa County received...
apnews.com
9:00 AM · Jul 17, 2021

https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-arizona-ap-fact-check-election-2020-campaign-2016-f0c36df59ee1069d65aa6a70a22d88cc

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Here’s a closer look at the facts.

CLAIM: Arizona’s largest county in the 2020 election received and counted 74,000 mail-in ballots that had no record of ever being sent out to voters.

THE FACTS: False. The claim mischaracterizes reports that are intended to help political parties track early voters for their get-out-the-vote efforts, not tally mail-in ballots through Election Day. The reports don’t represent all mail-in ballots sent out and received, so the numbers aren’t expected to match up, according to Maricopa County officials and outside experts.

“We have 74,243 mail-in ballots where there is no clear record of them being sent,” Logan said at a meeting livestreamed at Arizona’s Capitol on Thursday. “That could be something where documentation wasn’t done right. There’s a clerical issue. There’s not proper things there, but I think when we’ve got 74,000, it merits knocking on a door and validating some of this information.”

Logan based his false claim on two types of early voting reports issued by Maricopa County: EV32 files and EV33 files. He claimed that EV32 files are “supposed to give a record of when a mail-in ballot is sent” and EV33 files are “supposed to give a record of when the mail-in ballot is received.”

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[Scrivener7]

1. Was there ever any doubt that they would publish a false narrative?

[Takket]

7. of course not... "everything is fine" was never the result Fann&Cyber Ninjas agreed to

The entire process is a farce and the final report was written and presented to Fann before she ever even signed the contract. I'm being somewhat facetious, but what i mean is with no way of proving the results weren't accurate, they always planned on muddying the waters. They'll sieze on something anyone familiar with elections would know is bullshit but the average Joe has no knowledge of and would therefor look upon it as legit "evidence" of fraud.

Case in point these "ev files" they are talking about. That sounds pretty damning if you have no idea what an ev file is or what those numbers mean, and they know their followers will automatically accept their lies as the gospel truth and ignore anything else they hear.

[-misanthroptimist]

2. For Republicans...

...any conflict between reality and what they want must result in reality being tossed aside.

[Under The Radar]

3. "False Narrative" that is a very sweet and delicate term that means

F—cking bullshit lies

[CrispyQ]

4. Good grief.

Yet Maricopa County officials and election experts confirm that the claim isn’t true and represents a misunderstanding of how early voting works in Arizona.

I read an article that I wished I'd saved, that showed how many election CTs were based on misunderstanding of the electoral process. My own exchanges with people who were spouting election CTs proved the same. One guy didn't even know what a poll book was, but he was telling everyone that people (democrats) were voting twice.

Problem is, you can't reason with these people. Even when you explain the process, they refuse to listen.

Can I ask why the DOJ lets this shitshow continue? WTF?

[Bayard]

6. Indeed

I don't understand why have allowed this effort to discredit the election to continue.

[lame54]

8. Suddenly shutting it down...

Will be "absolutely proof" something happened

Why else would they shut it down?

Either way rhey are going to claim fraud so might as well shut it down

[uponit7771]

5. If this is all they got then the count must have matched up pretty close. Good now ...

...Arizona dems need to get in front of this narrative with a short accurate counter and demonize the
Fuck the GQP, silence is violence