.MaddowBlog: Sham audit backfires on Arizona GOP, President Biden won by a wider margin
A monthslong hand recount of Maricopa County's 2020 vote confirmed that President Joe Biden won and the election was not "stolen" from former President Donald Trump, according to early versions of a report prepared for the Arizona Senate. The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate's lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county's official election results. The data in the report also confirms that U.S. Sen.
The official results won't be released until this afternoon, at a presentation scheduled for 4 p.m. eastern, but not surprisingly, the findings appear to have leaked. To be sure, Arizona's utterly bonkers sham"audit" appeared pitiful long before these revelations. From the hunt for bamboo fibers to the examination of non-existent watermarks to the scrutiny of"kinematic artifacts," this process has been an obvious debacle from the outset.
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