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A lot of twitter-educated people have, from minute 1, accused anybody who questioned the 2020 presidential election of being at best a conspiracy theorist and at worst a white supremacist on a mission to overthrow America. I'm sure this post will be met with raging accusations of right wing terrorism and baseless claims of voter fraud, but since twitter, facebook, cnn, nbc, and the ny times certainly won't be informing anyone of this stuff, I might as well. You don't have to fire back at me, as these are simply facts of what has happened, as opposed to being my opinion on anything:
I live in maricopa county, arizona. This is the 1 place in the entire country where the state senate decided to actually do any kind of inspection on the election results, even though tens of millions of people all over the country requested it be done. There is a private outfit doing an audit of the voting machines, ballots, etc. There were over 2 million votes certified in maricopa county, so doing an audit by hand takes several weeks. it has been going on for a few weeks at this point. the state secretary, who is a very outspoken trump hater, and who has gone so far as to refer to all trump voters as neo-nazis, has done everything she could do to delay and/or interfere with the audit. mind you, nobody doing the audit has ever said that the goal is to overturn the 2020 election. their purpose has always been to find any and all types of fraud that happened in the 2020 election so that the system can be fixed if it is found to be flawed and corrupted. they just want to know what the actual votes were. the most logical thing to do would have been to immediately do an entirely transparent audit in front of everybody to finally prove that either the claims of fraud are truly baseless, or that there was a lot of fraud going on. there's a simple principal that people who are telling the truth don't fear or mind being investigated. why would they?
the state secretary and election committees have wanted nothing to do with being investigated. the state senate finally demanded an audit be done after months of people calling for it. since it has been underway, the elections committees have
1) claimed that they didn't have the passwords to access the data bases in the voting machines, which delayed the audit. they claimed that only Dominion, the company that makes the voting machines, has those passwords. to claim that they don't even have the passwords to access their own information is obviously absurd. if that were true, it would mean that a private, foreign company has more control of the voting data than the county government does.
2) hired people to line the entryways into the arena where the audit is taking place and harass the people as they drive in to the parking lot, most of whom are little old ladies who are volunteering. this actually isn't happening much anymore because they have security now, but it happened a lot at the beginning.
3) they just discovered yesterday or the day before that a bunch of the databases, which the state election committees are required by law to keep for 2 years after an election, were recently deleted. that couldn't be done by accident.
4) the chain of custody, which means the trail of people whose hands the physical ballots passed through from the voter's to the bag or case that they are ultimately stored in after the election, has been compromised. some of the cases have had their seals torn open, some are missing up to 20% of the ballots that are supposed to be in them. some cases that were marked with having 200 certified ballots only had 165 in them, for example.
Again, I expect nothing other than aggressive accusations of insanity and/or white supremacy from anybody who might respond to this. that is okay. i'm just pointing out some facts of what is happening. they have deleted databases, claimed that they couldn't access certain data in the machines, and policy wasn't followed in relation to the filing of the ballots. these are just facts.
Now for my opinion:
If somebody has nothing to hide and is innocent of any wrongdoing, they don't go around secretly deleting stuff and being as uncooperative as possible to the investigation. If you're telling the truth, you WANT the investigation to happen because the sooner it happens, the sooner you will be proven right and the sooner the other side has to shut up with their bogus claims. That is the exact opposite of how the state election committees and secretary have been acting throughout this whole thing.
- i am aware that i didn't use proper capitalization in this post. i just didn't feel like it.
I live in maricopa county, arizona. This is the 1 place in the entire country where the state senate decided to actually do any kind of inspection on the election results, even though tens of millions of people all over the country requested it be done. There is a private outfit doing an audit of the voting machines, ballots, etc. There were over 2 million votes certified in maricopa county, so doing an audit by hand takes several weeks. it has been going on for a few weeks at this point. the state secretary, who is a very outspoken trump hater, and who has gone so far as to refer to all trump voters as neo-nazis, has done everything she could do to delay and/or interfere with the audit. mind you, nobody doing the audit has ever said that the goal is to overturn the 2020 election. their purpose has always been to find any and all types of fraud that happened in the 2020 election so that the system can be fixed if it is found to be flawed and corrupted. they just want to know what the actual votes were. the most logical thing to do would have been to immediately do an entirely transparent audit in front of everybody to finally prove that either the claims of fraud are truly baseless, or that there was a lot of fraud going on. there's a simple principal that people who are telling the truth don't fear or mind being investigated. why would they?
the state secretary and election committees have wanted nothing to do with being investigated. the state senate finally demanded an audit be done after months of people calling for it. since it has been underway, the elections committees have
1) claimed that they didn't have the passwords to access the data bases in the voting machines, which delayed the audit. they claimed that only Dominion, the company that makes the voting machines, has those passwords. to claim that they don't even have the passwords to access their own information is obviously absurd. if that were true, it would mean that a private, foreign company has more control of the voting data than the county government does.
2) hired people to line the entryways into the arena where the audit is taking place and harass the people as they drive in to the parking lot, most of whom are little old ladies who are volunteering. this actually isn't happening much anymore because they have security now, but it happened a lot at the beginning.
3) they just discovered yesterday or the day before that a bunch of the databases, which the state election committees are required by law to keep for 2 years after an election, were recently deleted. that couldn't be done by accident.
4) the chain of custody, which means the trail of people whose hands the physical ballots passed through from the voter's to the bag or case that they are ultimately stored in after the election, has been compromised. some of the cases have had their seals torn open, some are missing up to 20% of the ballots that are supposed to be in them. some cases that were marked with having 200 certified ballots only had 165 in them, for example.
Again, I expect nothing other than aggressive accusations of insanity and/or white supremacy from anybody who might respond to this. that is okay. i'm just pointing out some facts of what is happening. they have deleted databases, claimed that they couldn't access certain data in the machines, and policy wasn't followed in relation to the filing of the ballots. these are just facts.
Now for my opinion:
If somebody has nothing to hide and is innocent of any wrongdoing, they don't go around secretly deleting stuff and being as uncooperative as possible to the investigation. If you're telling the truth, you WANT the investigation to happen because the sooner it happens, the sooner you will be proven right and the sooner the other side has to shut up with their bogus claims. That is the exact opposite of how the state election committees and secretary have been acting throughout this whole thing.
- i am aware that i didn't use proper capitalization in this post. i just didn't feel like it.
