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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,741 posts)
Sun May 9, 2021, 03:26 PM May 2021

AZ Audit Will 'Indefinitely Defer' Voter Interview Plans Over Intimidation Concerns Raised By DOJ

The Arizona Senate has said it will hold off on a controversial plan to knock on voters’ doors as part of a Republican-commissioned election recount that raised concerns about voter intimidation.

State Senate President Karen Fann (R) said in a letter to the Department of Justice Friday that the door-to-door effort to interview voters as part of an audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results would not go forward after federal officials raised concerns that the canvassing could violate civil rights laws protecting against voter intimidation.

The audit has persisted amid former President Donald Trump’s ongoing promotion of the lie of a stolen election, even as county officials say the 2020 election results which favored President Joe Biden have been validated repeatedly.

The head of the department’s civil rights division, Pamela Karlan, had written to Fann on Wednesday suggesting that the recount by Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based firm contracted bu the state Senate to conduct the recount may not comply with federal law.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arizona-audit-will-indefinitely-defer-voter-interview-plans-over-intimidation-concerns-raised-by-doj/ar-BB1gw2v1

Have they found the bamboo yet?

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AZ Audit Will 'Indefinitely Defer' Voter Interview Plans Over Intimidation Concerns Raised By DOJ (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 OP
They Should Just Do Lie Detector Tests SoCalDavidS May 2021 #1
Lie detectors don't work, myth of Hollywood and law enforcement, mostly. n/t Humanist_Activist May 2021 #8
Too bad. I was looking forward to them coming to my door. marybourg May 2021 #2
Same here Ritabert May 2021 #3
In Eastern Orthodoxy, when a neophyte is Chrismated, sprinkleeninow May 2021 #4
privacy not guaranteed? anotherOKIE May 2021 #5
I think they should "indefinitely defer"... SergeStorms May 2021 #6
They want to figure out who won by going door to door and asking people who they voted for? EarlG May 2021 #7
That is just silliness, EarlG! obamanut2012 May 2021 #11
K&R Scurrilous May 2021 #9
My Dad was talking about the bambook fibers yesterday obamanut2012 May 2021 #10

SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
1. They Should Just Do Lie Detector Tests
Sun May 9, 2021, 03:30 PM
May 2021

Send subpoenas to 10% of the citizens, and make them come in and get hooked up to a lie detector.

It's the only way they can be sure the election was legitimate.

sprinkleeninow

(20,215 posts)
4. In Eastern Orthodoxy, when a neophyte is Chrismated,
Sun May 9, 2021, 03:49 PM
May 2021

Last edited Sun May 9, 2021, 06:51 PM - Edit history (1)

in the narthex of the church/temple, the sponsors are gathered with family and attendees.

A one point in the christening prayers, the priest asks the sponsor (if Chrismating a baby), "Do you renounce satan?" The sponsor then affirms, "Yes!" Then he/she 'spits' to the West. (No saliva involved though!) 😁

Graphically, it drives the 'vow' home to all who witness the Mystery (rite) of Chrismation.

We all should spit in the devil's direction frequently.


Made an error in subject header. Not an acolyte. A 'neophyte'.

anotherOKIE

(90 posts)
5. privacy not guaranteed?
Sun May 9, 2021, 04:05 PM
May 2021

If our vote is private, how can the RWNJ's plan be legal? I would be so angry if they came to my door (not in AZ, though). I would not be polite or nice in even the slightest way. I always believed that we were guaranteed the right to vote and the right to privacy. That's true isn't it?

SergeStorms

(19,186 posts)
6. I think they should "indefinitely defer"...
Sun May 9, 2021, 04:06 PM
May 2021

Arizona republicans. Replace them actual rattlesnakes. At least you'll know what you're dealing with.

EarlG

(21,934 posts)
7. They want to figure out who won by going door to door and asking people who they voted for?
Sun May 9, 2021, 04:37 PM
May 2021

Pretty good idea, but I think there might be an easier way to determine the will of the people by asking them all who they would like to vote for.

Check this out: we set aside one whole day, let's say, I dunno, in November, where people can go to a local public facility -- we'll call it a "polling place" -- and cast a "ballot" indicating which politician they prefer. At the end we can add up all the ballots and see who won!

It just seems like it might be easier to do something like that than send people out to door to door.

obamanut2012

(26,046 posts)
11. That is just silliness, EarlG!
Mon May 10, 2021, 07:37 AM
May 2021

That's just what THEY want you to believe. Lizard people and Galactics hate our freedom. Oh, and have you ever seen a fringed flag in a voting area? SEE!tHE cABAL RUN eVERYTHING!

obamanut2012

(26,046 posts)
10. My Dad was talking about the bambook fibers yesterday
Mon May 10, 2021, 07:36 AM
May 2021

while we were playing golf, and, to quote him, "I never would have thought such stupid shit would be happening here and being taken seriously by some people who know better." Then later, while he was looking for a ball, he called me over and said he found fake ballots, and pointed to a small stand of bamboo. I said, "Okay, Boomer!"

hahahhaha he is a riot.

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