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Observers of Arizona’s GOP-led election audit document security breaches, prohibited items on counting floor

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Observers of Arizona’s Republican-led recount have found security gates left open, confidential manuals left unattended and quality-control measures disregarded, according to the Arizona secretary of state’s office.

In one instance, a software update caused so many errors that the company handling the recount abandoned the update and went back to the old software. In other instances, prohibited items including cellphones and pens with black or blue ink were allowed onto the counting floor.

And in an alleged incident last week, audit spokesman and former state Republican Party chairman Randy Pullen told an observer that the pink T-shirt the observer was required to wear while watching the proceedings made him “look like a transgender,” according to the Arizona secretary of state’s office. Continue reading.

Trump’s delusional election claims will ‘get more intense’ the closer he gets to being indicted: NYT’s Haberman

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Former President Donald Trump is reportedly telling his associates that he expects to be “reinstated” as president by the end of the summer — and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said that attorney Sidney Powell is to blame for planting that false idea in his head.

Appearing on CNN Wednesday, Haberman outlined how Trump has come to believe the delusional theories of both Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, both of whom have falsely claimed to have definitively proof of the 2020 election being “stolen” from Trump.

“Is Trump regurgitating what he’s hearing from Lindell and what he’s hearing Sidney Powell say? I think that’s what this is,” she said. Continue reading.

New Poll: Arizona Voters Reject 2020 Election ‘Audit’

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A majority of likely voters in Arizona oppose the audit state Senate Republicans forced of some 2.1 million ballots cast in the state’s 2020 presidential elections, according to a poll released Thursday by a GOP consulting firm in the state, a fact Republican analysts say could be problematic for the party in the coming midterm elections.

The poll found 55 percent of voters don’t support the hand recount of some 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County, the state’s largest. Democrats overwhelmingly oppose it, but so do 68 percent of unaffiliated voters.

What’s more, 44.5 percent of likely voters say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who supported the audit, leading Chuck Coughlin, a Republican who is the president and CEO of the firm that conducted the poll, to say it proves the audit is a political liability for the GOP. Continue reading.

Observers report ballots and laptop computers have been left unattended in Arizona recount, according to secretary of state

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Ballots have been left unattended on counting tables.

Laptop computers sit abandoned, at times — open, unlocked and unmonitored.

Procedures are constantly shifting, with untrained workers using different rules to count ballots.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) on Wednesday sent a letter outlining a string of problems that she said observers from her office have witnessed at a Republican-led recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona’s largest county. Continue reading.