Republican 'audit' in Arizona is a disaster, now comes a repeat in Pennsylvania and ... Texas?

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/23/2041512/-Republican-audit-in-Arizona-is-a-disaster-now-comes-a-repeat-in-Pennsylvania-and-Texas

In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 assault on the Capitol, a number of Republicans felt … not shame, exactly, but some measure of concern that even their base might not hold with the idea of conducting a violent insurgency to overturn an election. Those concerns were not strong enough to prevent 8 senators from voting to refuse to accept the results of the Electoral College even after the Senate filed back into place after the National Guard arrived on scene. Or to stop Josh Hawley, It certainly didn’t bother some of the 147 Republicans in the House how voted for the same thing. That included Rep. Mo Brooks, whose speech the rally stage included repeatedly encouraging those present to take violent action, and who claimed he had “discerned soon after the November 3rd election that honest American citizens have been victims of the largest voter fraud and election theft scheme in American history.”

Still, on Jan. 6 overturning the election was a minority position in the Republican Party. Even most of those like Kevin McCarthy, who defended casting their vote to please TFG, did so while making clear that "The debate and votes were not about overturning an election or federalizing elections. Last night Congress fulfilled its constitutional duty, and Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States,” There were only four representatives on record — Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, Ronny Jackson, and Marjorie Taylor Greene — who were willing to stand up and say they felt that the election was decided by voter fraud.

Then a funny thing happened. Republicans did the same prairie dog act that followed every moment of extremism over the last four years. They cautiously sniffed around, issuing statements of concern. They braced to bolt should this prove to be a step too far. Then, when it became clear that nothing is too far for the Q-loving base, they rushed back in to adopt the extremism as if they had never had a doubt about the justice of … calling Mexicans rapists, scorning Gold Star families, sneering at NATO, embracing Russia, calling veterans losers, openly cheering on Nazis, and, yup, attempting to overturn the election.

And over time, the Big Lie moved from something that was the particular madness of one man, to an ever more central tenet of the Republican Party.

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[SheltieLover]

1. Creating chaos & causing taxpayer funds to replace voting machines they touch

All straight out of putin's playbook.

[LakeArenal]

2. I thought the trumpers had to come up with the $.

I also read somewhere that the weren’t paying. The RNC maybe.

Well if I’m inaccurate.....🤷🏼?♀️

[SheltieLover]

4. At least in Arizona, taxpayers are paying over $3mill

to replace machines!

[bearsfootball516]

7. I can't imagine any of this actually helps the GOP down the road.

All it does is make them look like a bunch of bumbling, partisan idiots who are costing taxpayers millions by forcing counties to buy new voting machines.

[SheltieLover]

9. I sure hope you are right

Guessing the qpukes will go out & vote for the same assholes again.

[MagickMuffin]

3. Why would they want to audit Texas, Biden didn't win the state

But by all means proceed.

And by the way these are the exact same ballots that had their names on them!

[SheltieLover]

5. Please see post#1

[MagickMuffin]

14. YEP, AGENTS of CHOAS

[SheltieLover]

15. Absolutely!

[tanyev]

6. Oh, they just want to 'audit' the big counties that have the audacity to go blue.

[MagickMuffin]

10. Pick and choose, I see, I wonder if Tarrant County

will be included since it finally went BLUE!

[SheltieLover]

11. Yup

Of course!

[Nevilledog]

8. They want to audit the blue counties.

Pre-ordained "Results" of "Fraudits" will be used to defend their voter suppression laws.

[MagickMuffin]

12. I forgot they'll just pick and choose which counties to target.

Creating chaos is their endgame.

[SheltieLover]

13. Of course!