After the Democrat Secretary of State failed to get the Arizona State Attorney General to initiate an investigation of the audit; and after a Democrat state judge rejected the Democrat effort for a temporary restraining order; and after all other efforts have failed…. now we see three outside left-wing election groups (claiming bipartisanship yet led by lawyers from NYU) asking the DOJ to intervene in the Maricopa County, Arizona, ballot audit.
The audit started on April 23. A judge on April 28 rejected the attempt by Democrats to halt the process.
The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference have signed a letter to the civil rights division of the DOJ asking them to get involved.
The arguments within the letter [pdf here] are identical to the arguments made previously by other Lawfare groups, including Perkins Coie, to a state judge. The state judge rejected the arguments because there was no evidence submitted to the court to back them up.
Obviously there is a great amount of fear amid the network of Lawfare and leftist activists about this ongoing ballot audit. The letter only highlights the worry they carry that Arizona’s election fraud might be demonstrably proven the the wider U.S. electorate.
WASHINGTON DC – A group of election security and administration experts are asking the Justice Department to send federal monitors to Arizona as the Republican-led state Senate carries out an audit of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in the state’s 2020 presidential election.
In a letter to the top official at the Justice Department’s voting section, five elections experts from the Brennan Center for Justice, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference expressed deep concerns about how the audit is being conducted, warning that it has put ballots “in danger of being stolen, defaced, or irretrievably damaged.”
“They failed to ensure the physical security of ballots by keeping doors unlocked and allowing unauthorized persons to access the ballot storage facility,” the letter reads. “They also risk compromising the integrity of the ballots themselves, using materials and technologies that will cause the ballot paper and marks to deteriorate, such as holding ballots to ultra-violet light without gloves. (read more)
Here’s the Letter:
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Yeah, the “Brennan Center” from NYU… Gee, who would that be?
You just cannot make this stuff up folks…
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These lawyers sound nervous! Good! Let the audit complete and release the results!
Guess who is their best known member?
LINK:
https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=39254
Color me shocked! Not.
Thanks, SD.
Weissman!! That dirty rotten scoundrel!!
You seem to have misspelled “Scumbag”.
No that’s the correct spelling W-e-i-s-s-m-a-n. Scumbag.
Link doesn’t seem to work for me. Care to share the name?
Got it.
Andrew Weismann
They’ve been winning for 5 years, why stop now?
The DOJ raids Rudy Guiliani’s home… what happened to client-lawyer privilege… but leaves the Podesta brothers alone?
Andrew Weissman. And the Brennan Group? They surely don’t mean Walter! That Commie, John, rings a bell.
I knew it was WEISSMANN
before I hit the link/EVIL
Andrew Veisman. I tweeted that name to him and he blocked me. LOL
Where does Perkins Coie fit into all this and what is their connection to all the deep state players?
Is there more going on there than meets the eye?
… to quote gen. Burkhalter in Hogan’s Heroes: ”Klink! This is a matter of the highest importance… call the Gestapo at once!”
Now of course, Burkhalter would say “call the DOJ/FBI at once”.
Man, I wish I was in Az. I would create a human chain around the place to let thing proceed without intervention by the Feds. This is a state issue.
This needs to happen by local groups of patiots. No need for weapons. Just human link. Make them beat you with baton and roll over you with Tanks like Tieneman square.
FORCE them to expose themselves for the corrupt, murderous, racist dictators they are.
Step right up then!
Feds barricaded the Capitol to keep us out. Now the State of Arizona should do the same. January 6th volunteers must rally….to Defend Maricopa…Defend the Republic !
Ghandi was the best at doing this. His followers would get the shit beat out of them by Baton wielding British soldiers but they stood their ground and exposed them which eventually won them their independence.
But you never know with this DOJ, they could just send in the troops and take the whole place over.
The FBI has murdered several people in recent years. Who killed Seth Rich? The NY police officers who had Anthony Weiner’s emails? …. They can’t go back now.
And of course — who shot/killed Ashli Babbitt?
David Bailey?
People with cameras, cameras, cameras.
The Rangers are there offering security. PayPal cut off their funding, however another crowd source fundraiser was able to keep the donations flowing. VSGPDJT blasted doucey for not offering security, and foreshadowed antifapanties making an appearance.
Ducey.
Now there is a statesman.
I meant shithead.
Dang rinocorrect. I gotta get rid of this new app.
We are watching closely.
A lot of Patriots in AZ.
Remember the 90 mile long Trump parade?
I keep saying—our country is a powder keg.
Will AZ be the spark?
People here who never gave much thought to politics–they are paying attention.
And the Arizona Rangers are there outside of the AZ Audit to guard against any potential problems.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/arizona-rangers-guarding-forensic-audit-center-raises-140000-continue-protection-maricopa-county-audit/
This seemed inevitable. You didn’t think the scum bags were just going to lay back and let this audit happen did you?
It has always been our legal right, in every state, to start an “election contest,” and to require a physical audit of the ballots, which must be securely preserved for at least two years expressly for this purpose. Election fraud is a felony, and every voter is a plaintiff. It’s our fault that we haven’t been availing ourselves of this on a very regular basis.
Totally agree
We should be doing something. A LOT more. I am grateful for a start of course.
Everyone check Richard Baris to see if your county was also cheated.
It was TONS of red counties too.
Example: He took the state of TN and looked for anomalies. There were red counties all over that were side by side who always vote alike. The one with the mails ins had sudden “jumps” for Biden-Heels Up Harris.
They are test driving cheating everywhere nationwide and red states too because nobody likes these people anymore.
WITH Obama cheating, look at the tidal red wave that began sweeping out anything blue everywhere.
Trump had a huge win and we won’t win anymore if we don’t demand checks on our voting.
So it’s hard to get fraudulent blue and purple state judges to do the right thing?
Check to see YOUR county and if there were mail in anomalies and start addressing it pronto. And get help addressing it since we’re all in this together and need to be helping each other.
I thought the 2020 election was completely on the up and up. What gives?
Who couldn’t see this coming?
The fact they are so scared and trying to pull out all the stops to end the audit means that we are on the right path!!! Let’s get this done and show the country the truth!
But don’t get over confident. The Libs have a tremendous winning streak, even recently employing their DOJ to raid Guiliani’s home.
If the DOJ gets involved, its OVAH…………….
If they can pull it off, then yes. What’s the response? Nothing I’m afraid. This is not a level playing field and until whatever we call ourselves start getting out in front of Lawfare then they will continue to eat our lunch.
imagine for a moment…the DOJ gets involved and gathers all the documents to “secure”them and then we never hear about it again….just like Hunter’s laptop where we know there is criminal evidence. This is how they operate. That evidence is going to disapper if the DOJ gets involved or this thing is delayed. There is going to be a fire or something.
Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark…
u r 100% correct
“… not a level playing field …”
You are right. It is not. But every time they have to nakedly exercise corrupt power to prevent exposure to their fraud, perceptions of their illegitimacy grow both in breadth and depth. If they stop the recount, for us it will be a tactical defeat but a strategic victory. We only have to win the last tactical battle. Every such tactical defeat preconditions that battlefield in our favor. We ARE going to win.
Did this Democrat Lawfare group and the DOJ already coordinate before the letter was even sent?
100 to 1 they did.
Of course. I foresee IRS harassment, and every other kind of harassment by the DOJ and FBI of all members of the Az. state senate, up to and including arrest and imprisonment as “domestic extremists”.
Count on it.
That sort of thing takes time. Time the Democrats don’t have.
The letter tells me that LawFare knows they have no standing in Federal Court, which is a good thing. They’re going to depend on the DOJ to try and get a judge to declare an internal State matter that – legally – has no bearing whatsoever on the results of the November 2020 election is somehow violating somebody’s “civil rights”.
Could DOJ get a Federal Judge to rule that? Possibly. Is that sort of thing going to help JoeBama maintain the narrative that he is a legitimate President? Nope.
As the DOJ is run by very Nazi like people, they probably will intervene.
Just a question to throw out there for fun:
Who has more pull with the largest number of lawyers in the DOJ, Obama or Hillary?
Correct me if I am wrong, but don’t the ballots only need to be “preserved” for 22 months after the election?
I have newspaper outside in my garden that I use as a weed barrier, exposed to sunlight, rain, snow, and everything else that still has readable print on them after two years.
Is Chinese paper really that inferior?
I believe JovanHP or Prof Clement said the disputed ballots can be destroyed 6 mo after election, which would be May 3, 2021.
The applicable body of law in Arizona is “ARS Title 16, Article 13.” It is typical of the law in every state.
The relevant section is AZ Rev Stat § 16-624 (2016) … which says that regular ballots must be preserved for twenty-four months while irregular ballots may be destroyed after six. But I’m not sure that any election office actually destroys any records in less than two years. (I certainly wouldn’t …)
Gee, what are they worried about???
I’m still reserving judgment. Remember how adamantly opposed to Bill Barr and Brett Kavanaugh they seemed?
Yes. I have been thinking all along here that the DemoRATs are protesting a bit too loudly to appear genuine.
Theoretically, maybe the RATs are trying to bring more focus onto the audit so that when the auditors discover that the outcome was mostly accurate***, the whole world will think the election was legitimate. But its only a theory..
*** mostly accurate because the ballots & machines were secretly accessed and cleared of all evidence of election rigging during that very conspicuous prolonged delay before the auditors were permitted to access them.
I imagine that they’re doing it for the same reason they protested Barr and Kav – to maintain a two-party appearance, and keep the conservatives high on hopium. I think they think that once we run out of hopium, then the bullets start flying.
The left wants the hope to run out. They want an excuse to start the gulags for white extremists. This is obviously being prepared right now.
GB Bari– I am concerned about the same thing.
So much time has passed ….who knows what they have done.
I just pray-a lot.
I agree. It seems odd that the Democrats are acting as if they are totally against the audit, but then decide not to risk a paltry (to them) $1,000,000 to pause it? That doesn’t make sense.
They didn’t need to pay the money because they new they hired a lawyer that would the judge to recuse.
I’m honestly shocked that Lawfare has thus far been ineffective at shutting down this audit. They were ready for all the post-election legal challenges, but not an audit? They didn’t game plan that far out? Come on man! Something seems off.
We need other States to make moves to spread these bastards out. Put pressure on your local Officials, especially elected Judges. Here’s a chain letter to copy&paste:
Dears Sirs,
Election Integrity must be a requirement for a free society.
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer want to take what were unusual, rushed voting practices in the middle of a pandemic last year and now make them permanent. That is the first bill they have introduced. They are trying to make vote-by-mail universal across the country, override 50 states’ election laws, eliminate not only photo identification but signature verification as well.
The Annual Harvard Election Integrity report has the USA ranked at 57 out of 58 developed countries for election integrity and security. The majority of European states do not allow mail-in ballots except for those living abroad because of the inherent opportunity of voter fraud. They also use voting machines with a paper ballot trail to be used in case of a recount as Senator Barrack Obama recommended in 2005.
As your constituent, I must urge you to do the right thing and refuse to accept universal mail-in balloting for the sake of fair and secure elections and instead push for a nationally required State government issued Photo ID to vote. Any State photo ID i.e., a drivers license should be acceptable however US government should also subsidize States to provide a free Voter Photo ID on request as to not violate SCOTUS rulings of a Voter Tax in regards to having to pay for an ID to vote.
Time is of the essence to pursue this goal.
Thank you for your immediate attention in this matter.
Cordially,
This right here. We must make them divide their resources. Local and state level. It needs to be a completely decentralized effort to make them spread out.
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The Federal Government has no standing to interfere in State Legislature’s exercise of its Constitutional responsibility to oversee the time, place and manner of elections. As the Courts have helpfully told us, the states can do whatever they damn well please when it comes to elections, so here’s an opportunity for the State of Arizona to tell the DOJ that it has no standing. Ditto any interloping Federal judge who thinks he gets a say in whether a State can audit the state’s own election results.
Agree!
Are they not even listening to what they are claiming?
Nah…they are just making up whatever they can. Relying on people being ignorant of what is happening.
Hmmmm…don’t think that is going to work…..
Thank you.
what to do you think, will 500 FBI agents in full Swat Team gear show up , and seizing and locking down the equipment, conducting interviews, and arresting anyone who tries to stop them. Will MSM claim “domestic right-wing terrorists” are trying to tamper with election results.
Don’t exaggerate. I doubt they will send more than 490 FBI Agents along with no more than 10 Helicopter attack gunships and 3 Douglas AC-47 Puff, the Magic Dragons …
No. Obama will order a drone strike on the auditorium while Biden* enjoys his tapioca.
I expect what happens in every police state. Camps, then killings. The left just needs an excuse to start. All they need is a false flag. They have already established the “white extremists” narrative.
That’s what the left always does in a country: the National Socialists, the Communists in whatever country: they always establish camps and then killings in pursuit of a “beautiful future in their weird imaginations.”
Look at the raid on Rudy Giuliani. They intend to imprison him.
All who are trying to stop the uncovering of fraudulent votes should have a 3 am no knock. Gather all their electronic devices and I’d bet a massive treasure trove of evidence would be found
Wow! Since when is “lead attorney in Mueller Investigation” that proved to be a complete LIE turn into a bullet point for your resume?
That is NO plus for anyone in that investigation, rather a black eye for them.
The next letter will say they found a noose in the parking garage.
DOJ…yea, that’ll fix everything.
Claiming the level of UV light used for the brief period the ballot sheets are exposed could damage them is ludicrous. If the UV levels were dangerous, for a few seconds exposure, the operators would be at risk of skin cancer.
From the video livestreaming, it is clear the UV levels are very low, hence the need for boxes to cut off the ambient light from the room. No higher than levels used to inspect bank notes etc.
In making this claim, the scum have exposed themselves as idiots and liars. The auditors can now reveal the wattage and spectrum of their UV source (I use this tech, and I am sure they will have opted for low power tight frequency LEDs).
The anti-democratic scum have chosen a science fight. Now they will have to prove just how such low power tight frequency minimal exposure could possibly “damage” a ballot. (Seriously, the UV exposure is less than looking at the ballot in sunlight (50 watts m^2). It’s just milliwatts.)
First they claim that the auditors are allowing people to just wander about the facility unchallenged and then they claim that the auditors are refusing to allow nonpartisan observers entry.
Which is it?
Are they challenging people seeking entry to the facility or are they not?
They’re just throwing excrement against the wall and hoping something sticks.
Reposted from Presidential thread.
If you are interested in supporting election audits nationwide, this is a nonprofit set up by Patrick Byrne.
https://fundtheaudit.com
Currently they are helping to fund the audit in Maricopa County, but will direct money to other jurisdictions that initiate independent forensic audits.
No one really believes 2020 can be undone, but if we don’t expose what happened we have no hope of legitimate elections anywhere in the country in the future.
We are up against unimaginable power and money that is being threatened as never before.
They will stop at nothing.
The legal and security challenges are immense and will only get worse if AZ is able to pull back the curtain enough to wake up at least some of the public.
If DOJ steps in, AZ may well end up in the Supreme Court as this is a constitutional/states rights issue.
I know…eye roll.?
But quitting the fight is not an option.
Knowing who to support is always problematic, so do your due diligence.
If some senate and house seats could be turned, that might give us some breathing room Like McSally over the ex-astronaut. John James in MI. What if Perdue had really had more than 50% of the vote in the Georgia general – then there would have been no run-off. Etc…etc
It is worth mentioning that, even if this audit were to stop today, enough ballots have already been “sampled” to allow statistically-valid inferences to be drawn within a very high so-called “confidence interval.” Although the State Senate has authorized a physical inspection of “every single ballot,” that is not statistically necessary. With the work that has already been completed, it is already possible to know conclusively whether or not fraud occurred.
Great. Can’t wait to see what happens when the DOJ swoops in, stops the process, and impounds the ballots.
The state is conducting a lawful and transparent forensic audit in accordance with the state constitution.
So garbage lawyers from another state requesy the federal government to step in and trample state rights.
No wonder people are whispering “civil war”.
A peaceful secession by states and by certain counties or areas of states would be better if the totalitarians would accept it.
They won’t, just like Lincoln. They will attack their own country.
Federal lands, interstate highways, military bases, utility easements, and shared power grids would severely complicate secession….otherwise,go for it!!!
They went straight to the DoJ “civil rights division”, which might be an indication that they know their claims are baseless and they need to gin up some racial discrimination somehow. Weakness?
“in danger of being stolen, defaced, or irretrievably damaged.”
Oh no! We may never be able to not audit them again! LOL.
Brilliant comment!
Being guarded by the AZ Rangers, so if they call off their Antifa actors/goons the ballots are probably safe.
Of course they weren’t concerned when the Maricopa County Board of Election Supervisors allowed the ballots to be loaded into trucks, driven around the city, returned to the tabulation center, only to have shredded ballots turn up in the trash and a mysterious fire break out at a supervisors farm.
The details you describe are also found here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fOQUM6WXm3I&feature=youtu.be
The Board of Supervisors took the ballots out of a secure vault without any request from the AZ Senate; drove the ballots around on a truck and then said that the AZ Senate was not ready to receive them; then stored the ballots in an unsecured location. Then one of the Board of Supervisors had a fire at his farm that destroyed two barns.
Corrupt as hell
This two-barn fire sounds like it fits into the timeline
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.in/international/news/a-fire-at-an-arizona-farm-destroyed-2-barns-and-killed-over-166000-hens/amp_articleshow/81382651.cms
The position of this Board of elections guy sounds about right — guess the fire was at his farm.
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/republican-maricopa-county-hickman-no-evidence-election-fraud-11515388
NOW I know there is voter fraud in AZ and many other states!
That letter is a joke, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the DOJ sent in 100’s of agents.
Brief reading of the letter, Weissman/Lawfare want the Feds to monitor on site the count. I’m fine with that.
The more monitors the merrier! Hell, lets have live MSM on site!
The state should order it’s sheriffs to arrest any federal agent attempting to enter the facility and to hold them without bail until the the audit has concluded per the states schedule and not the feds.
I’m asking forgiveness for what I want to happen to Weissman.
I’m not!
Sometimes it is better to ask forgiveness than permission.
Pro tip: if the industrial tree chipper is a hire, remember to run a few bales of kerosene soaked newspaper through it before returning it.
Letter written to the Voting section of the DOJ Civil Rights Division.
So Kristen Clarke will be the one calling the shots for the feds.
Make the observers stand 25 yards away from the audit behind glass and rope barriers!
It’s important that the GOP (gawd help us all) keep a record of everyone associated with this – for obvious reasons – the most obvious one being – that’s exactly what the Dems would do – to be addressed later with official sanctions.
A few years from now, space aliens will finally visit planet Earth and America and say, “It looks like this had once been a wonderful place and then Joe Biden came along”.
Then those aliens will decide what’s left might taste good with those vaccine injections .
Hmmmm…starting to see some flames from the dumpster fire that the 2020 election was….
How dare we plebes have evidence that there were not fraudulent votes. It is so unbelievable to me that if you knew this election was 100% on the up and up, you would not be calling for no transparency.
If it was an honest election without fraud, why are they going to such great lengths to put a stop to it! They should want the evidence out there because then the American people would have proof their candidate won the election!
I hope they don’t get away with stopping this
Question, as I’ve not observed the audit. Are they handling the ballots in a safe manner? Do they have bipartisan actual observation of the audit? Just wondering if anyone knows. It would make their argument null and void.
All legal issues have been adjudicated.
Yes!
They are livestreaming it from multiple cameras.
Anyone on the planet with a smartphone and internet connection can watch it. (You just need to smack away the leftists trying to cover your phone screen with pizza boxes).
The Gestapo on military flights to AZ. Stormtroopers parachuting. Blitzkrieg.
They are desparate to get the litigation into the corrupt leftist Federal Judicial system where an obama Federal Judge will rule against the AZ audit! Which will then be upheld by either by the Ninth Circuit or the DC Circuit and they know they have the support of the Supreme Court! Any rulings along the way will violate the Constitution but that doesn’t matter any more. There is no “controlling legal authority” who will go against the deep state/Lawfare. The Constitution be damned. If they are successful it’s all over! It was easy to predict they would go to the corrupt Federal Judiciary once they were thwarted by the State! God help us! Hosanna!
It is weird for me to say this, but I can only imagine what it must have been like in Nazi Germany and Italy during the 1930’s as these Monsters started to come into power, and the black shirts started burning buildings and beating up regular people , and Nazi Press printed lies. And one by one all the government agencies started saying “hail Hitler”, and the educational system was taken over, and children turned in their parents. And Jews were rounded up and trained away.
Scary to watch those old movies that depict those type events.
But it is scary for many Patriotic Americans TODAY to see this happen to our country.
We can’t go to the FBI, or DOJ, or Judge, or Congress, or MSM … our voice has been silenced. Even FOX turned to the Dark Side. And it seems like the masses are quiet and don’t want to be censured and lose their jobs.
Are we Arizona residents going to have to take up guard duty around the Veterans Coliseum with our rifles?
Perhaps we should all join them?
This is probably the best news about this so far. It means they are running out of options. This election, according to the SCOTUS is a “states” matter. Therefore the DOJ has nothing to say about it…. right? RIGHT???