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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Thu Apr 29, 2021, 01:55 PM Apr 2021

Elections experts call on Justice Department to send monitors to Arizona audit

A group of election security and administration experts are asking the Justice Department to send federal monitors to Arizona as the Republican-led state Senate carries out an audit of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in the state's 2020 presidential election.

In a letter to the top official at the Justice Department's voting section, five elections experts from the Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and the Leadership Conference expressed deep concerns about how the audit is being conducted, warning that it has put ballots "in danger of being stolen, defaced, or irretrievably damaged."

"They failed to ensure the physical security of ballots by keeping doors unlocked and allowing unauthorized persons to access the ballot storage facility," the letter reads. "They also risk compromising the integrity of the ballots themselves, using materials and technologies that will cause the ballot paper and marks to deteriorate, such as holding ballots to ultra-violet light without gloves."

"And, by restricting access to the audit by nonpartisan observers, election administrators and voting machine experts, they are failing to ensure that the audit is transparent."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elections-experts-call-on-justice-department-to-send-monitors-to-arizona-audit/ar-BB1gbtgb

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Elections experts call on Justice Department to send monitors to Arizona audit (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
Better late than never, I guess. GoCubsGo Apr 2021 #1
If one genuine vote is touched C_U_L8R Apr 2021 #2
Since Flynn is 'in' that venue has taint all over it. Baked Potato Apr 2021 #3
Not to mention all that sweet, sweet data mining... NullTuples Apr 2021 #4
too late, the ballots are already contaminated nt msongs Apr 2021 #5
Exactly. The chain of custody was broken. SunSeeker Apr 2021 #9
Ditto. Why not object in time to prevent damage? catrose May 2021 #17
Blue and black pens seen on the count floor on day 1. Let the changes begin. kairos12 Apr 2021 #10
Sadly true. nt crickets May 2021 #15
isn't this "audit" barbtries Apr 2021 #6
Yes. I don't know where our national leadership has been on this. nt Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #7
That might prevent the phony "evidence" that rallies the Harker Apr 2021 #8
isn't that ballot tampering ? monkeyman1 Apr 2021 #11
This isn't an audit. We should stop calling it that. perfessor Apr 2021 #12
I figured from the moment I read about this that Ka-Dinh Oy Apr 2021 #13
These are suppose to be secrete ballots. fwvinson May 2021 #14
they have no mechanism to correlate ballots to specific people drray23 May 2021 #16

C_U_L8R

(44,889 posts)
2. If one genuine vote is touched
Thu Apr 29, 2021, 02:01 PM
Apr 2021

this whole conspiracy ought to be thrown in prison for a very long time. Enough of this bullshit.

NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
4. Not to mention all that sweet, sweet data mining...
Thu Apr 29, 2021, 02:14 PM
Apr 2021

It's otherwise pretty much impossible for parties to gain access to the "private" half of registration info.

Who needs Cambridge Analytica when they have Cyber Ninjas?

SunSeeker

(51,367 posts)
9. Exactly. The chain of custody was broken.
Thu Apr 29, 2021, 03:58 PM
Apr 2021

It is outrageous that these ballots were just handed to these idiots with no oversight.

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
6. isn't this "audit"
Thu Apr 29, 2021, 02:37 PM
Apr 2021

just a rewrite of history? Why are they being so secretive about what's going on? I guess i haven't paid enough attention to this, but somehow i got the impression that this is republicans simply hellbent on rewriting history. no?

Harker

(13,870 posts)
8. That might prevent the phony "evidence" that rallies the
Thu Apr 29, 2021, 03:52 PM
Apr 2021

infantruppen for their second Capitol attack.

This needs to be stopped or observed.

Ka-Dinh Oy

(11,686 posts)
13. I figured from the moment I read about this that
Thu Apr 29, 2021, 04:41 PM
Apr 2021

by the time they are done "counting" there will just be 100 Democrat votes remaining.

 

fwvinson

(488 posts)
14. These are suppose to be secrete ballots.
Sat May 1, 2021, 10:57 AM
May 2021

I'm expecting many lawsuits from individuals in Arizonia, about individual rights being violated.

drray23

(7,587 posts)
16. they have no mechanism to correlate ballots to specific people
Sat May 1, 2021, 06:31 PM
May 2021

They have the ballots but there is no marking allowing them to match ballots to whomever cast it. Its always the case that once they are out of the envelopes, you cant tell.

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