Arizona Republican Fraudit: Er, Uh, Biden Won By Wider Margin

 

 

Well, well, what will the malignant loser have to say about this:

A Republican-commissioned review of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast last year in Arizona confirmed the accuracy of the official results and President Biden’s win in Maricopa County, according to a draft report prepared by private contractors who conducted the recount.

The draft was obtained by The Washington Post late Thursday night in advance of a planned public release of a final version on Friday.

The ultimate findings will cap a costly and drawn-out recount commissioned by the GOP-led Arizona Senate that had been championed by former president Donald Trump and kept alive false claims that fraud tainted the election in the state’s most populous county. The process was pilloried by election experts who warned that the methods used by the firm hired to run the review were sloppy and biased.

After nearly six months and almost $6 million — most of it given by groups that cast doubt on the election results — the draft report shows that the review concluded that 45,469 more ballots were cast for Biden in Maricopa County than for Trump, giving Biden 360 more votes than the certified results.

The draft report found the count to have “no substantial differences” from the county’s certified tallies.

So, the Republican fraudit actually found that Biden won more votes than were certified.  (Meaning the "steal" was even bigger than the malignant loser suspected! Bwahahahahahaha!)

Whether this result -- in which even the mightiest efforts by Trumpists to find Chinese bamboo ballots, dead people voting, and purloined ballots failed to overturn the legitimate results -- puts a damper on other Republicans' efforts to cast doubt on the election by running similar fraudits has already been answered:  nope.  Other states, including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, with anti- democracy Republican legislators already have similar fraudits in the works;  Texas, which went for Trump (!), just announced its own fraudit after it was demanded by... the malignant loser himself. The point of all of them, of course, is not to find "fraud" (because there was none), but to give Republicans cover to carry out their voter suppression/ election nullification plans.

How much longer do we have to wait before we get federal voting rights legislation passed to put an end to all this b.s.?

BONUS:   Classic --

 

Even though I didn’t vote for him… Newsflash: Biden won. pic.twitter.com/lBGUhDiUaX

— Stephen Richer—Maricopa Cnty Recorder (prsnl acct) (@stephen_richer) September 24, 2021

(Photo: "Wait, I think I found some Chinese bamboo!")