Recount vs. Audit (Updated)

The much-awaited final Maricopa County 2020 presidential election forensic audit has revealed some disturbing results — among them, 57,000 questionable ballots:

(Please note all the ‘N/A’ holes in these results due to the non-cooperation of this county’s election officials.)

See: Final Maricopa County Audit Report.

These results show alarming holes in Maricopa’s voting process … evidence if you will … which need to be viewed in the light that Trump only “lost” the state of Arizona by 10,457 votes.

Now to the hand recount … which did not adjust for or eliminate the above obvious chicanery  … and which is the headline that most media outlets banner, the simple hand recount of all the ballots shows Biden actually picked up 360 votes … see: CNN Report.

Now, kind pilgrim, depending on your political bias, which result do you agree with … the forensic audit or the paper-ballot recount? 

My own take, for what it’s worth, is that those who are out to sway an election with unsolicited mail-in ballots, sloppy ballot verification administration and electronic voting-tally technology have made paper ballot electronic-assisted recounts meaningless. The more complex is made the ballot process, the easier it is to cheat.

Afterward: Hate to inject common sense into this issue … but why not subtract the voting irregularities favoring Trump from those favoring Biden … and, assuming this is a positive number, subtract this from Biden’s winning margin? It this result goes big negative, then the Arizona Senate should decertify the election. QED!

After afterward: Just discovered that most of these mail-in ballot discrepancies were discovered with the envelopes and not the ballots which were no longer associated with their envelopes. That, apparently, is why the above reconciliation cannot be done. Now we know.

STAND UP FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY!