Arizona vote 'audit' sinks deeper into insanity as state GOP chair threatens her own officials with

[Soph0571]

arrest

The Daily Beast reports that the audit has been driving divisions within the state GOP even deeper, and Ward is now pushing for the arrest of Republican election officials in Maricopa County if they refuse to comply with the auditors' demands.

"There have to be consequences," Ward earlier this week. "There could be arrests of people who are refusing to comply."

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-forensic-audit-2653047176/|]

Arresting people for standing up against the big lie and the big lie enablers... hhhhhmmm where have we seen that before!?!?!

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Attributed to Goebbels... maybe he didn't say but I think it sums up what is in the neo GOP's shrivelling heart of hate 2021. Arrest anyone who does not offer featly at any cost to the dear leader.

[pwb]

1. Good idea arrest each other.

Please continue.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Chemtrail Kelli needs to be locked up in the same psychiatric ward as Paul Gosar.

Yes, Kelli. There have to be consequences. The sooner YOU and your corrupt, insane colleagues face them, the better off we will all be.

[FakeNoose]

3. Wait ... don't they have somebody in charge ... like a Governor maybe?

How long is this nonsense going to continue before someone puts a foot down?

Hmmmm

[TheRickles]

4. Yes! I don't follow AZ politics, but it's possible that the Gov and the Att'y Gen

both support the lie, and will do whatever it takes to allow the "audit" to continue.

[Marcuse]

14. The Gov just signed a voter suppression bill.

[link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/arizona-legislature-passes-law-purge-infrequent-mail-voters-n1267025|

[lindysalsagal]

5. If it takes the AZ GQP this long to re-count their own ballots

then they're too stupid to be in any kind of leadership. Who do they think they're fooling?

[Hotler]

6. When you're home schooled and your teacher only has a 5th grade education.

Counting can be challenge.

[SergeStorms]

11. When you're checking every ballot....

for traces of bamboo and suspicious fingerprints it takes a lot of time. I'm sure the "Cyber Ninjas" want to be as thorough as possible.

[Justice matters.]

7. Just where the f is Joe's DOJ in this mess run by fascists???

Come on, Merrick... do not start deceiving us, please.

[machoneman]

8. I'd like to see them try and arrest some election officials. Here's why:

Aside from making this crazy train a bigger media issue, who would issue the warrants? Under what legal claim? who would carry said warrants in hand and use them to arrest any election official? Local police? State Police? Some sworn in officer of the court? Oh, and what judge in their right mind would even consider issuing an arrest warrant? Even if he/she held a hearing before issuing said warrants, who would be the prosecution's lawyer? The state's AG?

Obviously, the lady (name escapes me now) who is the Senate President is so dumb she hasn't thought through the events as I've noted. No A.G., judge, or law enforcement type would touch any of these issues unless compelled to do so. And why does she think anyone with 1/2 a mind in AZ would back her up, save her majority senate R's?

Crazy is too small of a word to describe this train wreck!

[johnthewoodworker]

9. Does anyone think a Republican/Nazi will listen to warnings from other Republican/Nazis.

[CaptainTruth]

10. Rethugs just keep showing why they're not competent to govern.

I don't think they realize they're doing it, but they're doing it.

[barbtries]

12. "We WILL rewrite history"

that's all this farce is, a bald-faced move to rewrite history. Change facts to suit themselves.

they're the ones who should be facing arrest imo. fucking with the vote is still illegal, isn't it?

[Jon King]

13. Repugs are starting to eat each other....

Or at least nibble. Gradually the cracks begin, then spread.

[NCjack]

16. I love it when Repugs go full-on wild and kill/eat their kind.

[DBoon]

18. They are like the Donner Party

They went somewhere from which they could not escape, are running out of food, and are reduced to cannibalism.

[ShazamIam]

15. Why is it common to hear conservatives and Republicans demanding people be arrested when doing

anything a conservative doesn't like. They want to arrest people for wearing their pants low, being LGBT, being alive while having certain skin color and for not going to church, yet this same group screams for liberty and freedom for themselves to do anything.

[UCmeNdc]

17. I will arrest you if you do not lie and cheat for me!

The GOP in a nutshell!

[Grins]

19. "Incompetence is a terrible thing to watch." - Trump, 17 Aug 2019 NM

[MySideOfTown]

20. Best way to stop this

is to turn off the air conditioning in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. If the Suns get into the NBA playoffs, the counters will have to vacate the premises during any home games or other scheduled events, like high school graduations. They were supposed to be done by now. They will soon find out they need a new venue.

[jmowreader]

21. You realize next year's AZ GOP primary is going to be really fun

The person or persons attempting to unseat Ms. Ward and her ilk will first show pictures of crumbling infrastructure in Arizona...then announce that “but Kelli Ward thought it more important to waste your tax dollars on...” displaying headlines of things like the Bamboo Theory, the Chicken Theory, and the rest of the insanity the pro-audit crowd is using to investigate a certified election.

As an aside, are we SURE the people coming up with this bizarre shit aren’t really Democratic trolls dreaming up outlandish “no one would ever believe this” scenarios during marathon tequila-drinking sessions? “Hey man, I have a good one. Let’s tell ‘em Republican elections board members shredded their ballots, fed them to chickens then incinerated the chickens to cover their traces.” (Three days later..,) “Hey man, those idiots bought that shit...let’s next tell ‘em undertakers have been stealing the organs of dead people, selling them on the black market, then using shredded Trump ballots to stuff the bodies with so no one gets suspicious.” And then, of course, when the Cyber Ninjas start demanding exhumation orders so they can inspect corpses for shredded ballots inside, the trolls will claim the foundations of new houses have shredded Trump ballots mixed into the concrete so that the Cyber Ninjas will have to tear down all the houses built since the election so they can test the foundations for evidence of ballot paper in the concrete.

[Grins]

22. What post left out...!

I got blocked from the Daily Beast story because of the paywall, but found another report on it from The Guardian.

Where you learn:

- Ward made her threat - on OANN! (Shocking! Amiright?)
- OANN on-air "personalities" held fund-raise to PAY for the audit.
- Ward's comments came after the Republican County Supervisors refused to attend a meeting with GOP senators who had demanded the audit.
- Only two Republicans showed up for that meeting.
- The two Republicans only asked friendly questions to the "auditors."
- Because it was a meeting and not a hearing, those two Republicans blocked out Democrats who would have asked the tough questions.
- The meeting was broadcast online, but was not open to the press or public.

Link:

[link:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9600447/Arizona-Republican-Party-chair-threatening-election-officials-ARRESTED.html|

[Blue Owl]

23. K&R for exposure

[MineralMan]

24. GOP Chairs have no authority to arrest anyone.

It's just another bullshit threat.