So here is the headline from The Epoch Times:
Arizona Senate Hears of Multiple Inconsistencies Found by Election Audit
Arizona attorney general says his office will review findings
The Times story began by reporting this:
“Arizona lawmakers were told on Friday during a hearing on an audit conducted in the state’s most populous county of inconsistencies uncovered during a forensic audit into the 2020 election.
The Maricopa County audit was commissioned by Republicans in the Arizona Senate.
Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, issued a letter on the same day to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich recommending further investigation following the audit’s findings. In the letter, she raised concerns over signature verification on mail-in ballots, the accuracy of voter rolls, the securing of election systems, and the record-keeping of evidence related to the elections.
‘I am therefore forwarding the reports for your office’s consideration and, if you find it appropriate, further investigation as part of your ongoing oversight of these issues,’ Fann told Brnovich in the letter.”
Former President Trump was quick to notice the problem with the Arizona “inconsistencies.” At his rally Saturday night in Georgia he said the following:
“So here’s from the report….The astounding findings include… Ready? 23,344 mail-in ballots were counted despite the person no longer living in that address. Oh, that’s good. So they mailed in, but there’s nobody living there. 23,000. The entire margin in the state was only 10,457 of us. I remember this, because each one of these categories are more than you need. More than you need.
So you have a little over 10,000 votes that I quote “lost by.” But all these things happened. There were 17,322 duplicate ballots, which renowned computer scientist Dr. Shiva identified as having surged right after the election was over. Between November 4th and November 9th scores of mail-in ballot duplicates emerged. Duplicates. You know what a duplicate is, right? Oh, how did that happen? 96% of the ballots that came in on two of these days were duplicates.
There were 2,382 votes who voted in person even though they had moved out of the county. 2081 voters had moved out of the state. They’re not allowed to vote, but they voted anyway. 5,047 people, remember a little over 10,000, 11… think of that. I mean, just give that a little thought. Every one of these numbers. 5,047 people voted in more than one county resulting in up to 5,295 what they call overvotes. It’s an overvote. In other words, you’re supposed to vote in one county, not two. How many people voted in three or four? I wonder.
There were at least 282 dead people who happened to vote. Maricopa County’s official canvas recorded 3,432 more ballots cast than people they recorded as having cast a vote. That’s tough, right? 277 precincts have more ballot cast than people. They have more ballots cast than they have people resulting in at least 1,551 excess votes. 9,041 mail-in votes and voters. Well, just to be exact. You know what? We have to get this exactly accurate because the fake news will say, “He said votes, instead of voters.” 9,041 mail-in voters returned more ballots than they were sent. Oh, that’s interesting. How does that happen?”
There was more from the former President. But it is safe to say he is absolutely right to be questioning the reported Arizona results as is done by the newly released forensic audit.
But the media response to the audit?
Here’s the headline from The Hill:
Arizona draft audit report shows Biden lead widened by 360 votes
Translation: the audit found Biden gained 99 votes and Trump lost 261.
And from CNN:
Final report from partisan Arizona review confirms Biden defeated Trump in Maricopa County last November
And from The Wall Street Journal:
Trump Loses Arizona—Again
He still cries ‘fraud’ even after the audit he demanded found none.
Amazing. Over 23,000 votes are reported from people not living at the stated address. There were 17,322 duplicate ballots. There were 2,382 votes from people who voted in person even though not living in that county. 2,081 votes came from “voters” who had moved out of the state and are not allowed to vote. 5,047 people voted in more than one county. Last but not least there were 282 dead people who magically came back to life to vote.
Then the President of the State Senate writes to the Attorney General of Arizona to raise questions about “signature verification on mail-in ballots, the accuracy of voter rolls, the securing of election systems, and the record-keeping of evidence related to the elections.”
Not to mention that, in the matter of duplicate votes, in a report from former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett to the State Senate there is this:
“On approximately 2,500 duplicated ballots, there was no discernible serial number recorded on either the original or the duplicate ballot. These do not comply with the above statutes and procedures.”
All of that – and the headlines are that Biden got 99 more votes than he had in the first count?
Unreal. The hard fact of this audit is that when you add up all the votes that are listed above the total comes to 73,458 votes that are questionable at a minimum. Everything about that total calls into question the final “certified” Arizona results.
President Trump has every reason – say again every reason – to question the Arizona results from 2020. (And, I would add, to do the same in my home state of Pennsylvania, where there is an Arizona-style audit underway right now. Needless to say, sadly, Pennsylvania, as I have detailed in this space in the past, has a long history of voter fraud. Here is just one example from 2008.)
The irony is that the staunch defense of ignoring all of these election “inconsistencies” in Arizona does nothing but fuel the dumpster fire that is the growing distrust of election integrity.
The real question now is: what will Arizona – and for that matter the other 49 states – do to make absolutely certain that threats to election integrity are corrected – and corrected pronto?
