#ballot audit

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Election conspiracists are trying to take over state offices to ensure the GOP always wins

Trump-devoted candidates are seeking to become election officials so they can gladly overturn voting results they don't like, which is alarm

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Arizona ballot audit shows signs of backfiring on GOP

Independent voters oppose the controversial recounting of ballots by a wide margin.

[alwaysscreechingbasement]

To understand the legacy of the US Capitol riot, you need to understand what's happening in Arizona

A group of Trump supporters in Arizona stopped trusting their democratic institutions. And then those institutions, struggling to get the trust back, tried giving them legitimate power.

“Any day now, Cyber Ninjas is expected to release a report detailing their findings and advising the state on election security. Polls are finding anywhere from 29 to 51 per cent of Republican voters think that the information they share could lead to Trump's return to office. At this point, that belief is more valuable than the truth. As the audit progressed over the last month, the Cyber Ninjas began offering audit tours to elected Republican officials and up-and-coming candidates, who were all openly courting Trump's base, fundraising off their visits. Nine months after the election, a push to conduct Cyber-Ninjas-style audits is gaining traction in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and New Hampshire. Across the US, Republican legislatures are using the fraud belief as justification for passing laws that Democrats say actively suppress the vote. They've introduced 400 laws already. And here is the lesson that any citizen of a democratic government needs to know: If Arizona's approach is so easily imported to other states, it can also be exported to other countries. Election fraud claims are already pushing Peru to the edge of violence, throwing Germany's upcoming election into question and injecting controversy into the British parliamentary agenda. Arizona alone was never going to dismantle democracy. But it sure looks like it was the first domino to fall.“

[alwaysscreechingbasement]

Arizona ballot audit shows signs of backfiring on GOP

Independent voters oppose the controversial recounting of ballots by a wide margin.