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catbyte

(34,165 posts)
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 01:01 PM Jul 2021

Arizona Republicans face 'prospect of disaster' in 2022 over election audit backlash: analysis

Bob Brigham
July 19, 2021

Republicans in Arizona are facing electoral backlash after the widely-panned audit of votes in Maricopa County has dominated local press for months.

Laurie Roberts, a columnist for The Arizona Republic, on Monday wrote about a new poll showing 62% of Republicans in the state wrongly believe Trump won the 2020 election and 27% believe he will be reinstated even though the Constitution does not allow such a thing to occur.

"The latest poll numbers from OH Predictive Insights show clearly why the once-respected Senate President Karen Fann would send our beloved state so deeply down the rabbit hole with her Cyber Ninja audit," Roberts explained. "She's chasing Republican voters. (Or perhaps, they are chasing her?)"

"But here's the thing. Most people do have faith in the system. In fact, 66% of Arizona voters polled say there is no credible evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the 2020 election results. Put another way, Arizona voters, by a nearly 2-1 margin, discount all the crazy conspiracy talk," she wrote.

"That includes a whopping 85% of Democrats and 76% of those all-important independent voters – the ones Republicans will need if they hope to win back the Senate in 2022 or hang onto control of the state. Even 39% of Republican voters aren't buying the fraud talk," she explained.

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https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-audit-2022-midterms/

Arizona Republic article (behind paywall)
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Arizona Republicans face 'prospect of disaster' in 2022 over election audit backlash: analysis (Original Post) catbyte Jul 2021 OP
They worked had to be seen as obstructionist and frauds. FarPoint Jul 2021 #1
Good to hear that not everyone is going down the path to the funny farm, or buying into this... SWBTATTReg Jul 2021 #2
Creepy that apparently 15% of AZ Dems are falling for the bullshit. lagomorph777 Jul 2021 #3

FarPoint

(12,206 posts)
1. They worked had to be seen as obstructionist and frauds.
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 01:03 PM
Jul 2021

Makes sense to me...Let's not let Arizona forget.

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
2. Good to hear that not everyone is going down the path to the funny farm, or buying into this...
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 01:16 PM
Jul 2021

conspiracy laden nonsense.

If anything, everyone of these people perpetuating this nonsense should be outed in AZ and ridiculed endlessly. They also should be banned for life for participating in any election events/etc., since their integrity is shot to hell. Would you trust any of these people around your ballots that you cast in the future?

If any claims to vote tampering or vote fraud, etc. are to be made, then a very close look at these idiots performing the 'audit' should be examined very closely, for possibly tampering w/ already counted ballots (attempting to change original ballot markings, etc. to throw counts off, etc.), due to very sloppy procedures undertaken w/ this so called 'audit'.

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