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It is fair to say that many Donald Trump supporters take his loss in the 2020 presidential election badly. This includes Trump himself, who caused his supporters to storm the US Capitol on January 6 in the hope of preventing a procedural step in the peaceful transfer of power. Trump continues to announce without evidence that his and yadda yadda yadda’s election was stolen.

Even so, Trump’s alternate view of reality is a safe place for many of his followers. A Reuters / Ipsos poll in late March found that 60% of Republicans believe that Trump’s election was stolen despite Trump being unable to prove it in court and that the various conspiracy theories were insane, like that one “Theft” was pulled out.

In response to Trump’s delusions, we see state lawmakers across the country draft voter suppression bills disguised as electoral integrity bills. We’ve already seen Georgia Governor Brian Kemp sign a bill that restricts voter registration and early voting, and even forbids people to meet voters who wait in longer lines due to the above restrictions To provide food and water. The setback, including losing the all-star game of Major League Baseball, has led Republicans to complain that all of their new restrictions, which disproportionately affect black voters, are just misunderstood and that sport is out of politics should stay out (unless they want a new ballpark) and businesses should stop trying to toss their weight around (unless it’s time to fund campaigns or advocate tax breaks or less regulation).

Here in Arizona we have our own electoral suppression laws that move through the legislature and would hinder voter registration efforts and find new ways to dump early ballot papers. A number of Phoenix area companies recently announced their opposition to the bills, realizing that when it is harder for people to vote is the wrong way to ensure electoral integrity.

But as Rep. John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills) told CNN earlier this year, “Not everyone wants to vote, and if someone is not interested in voting, it likely means they are completely uninformed on these issues Quantity matters. ” , but we also have to look at the quality of the voices. “

And obviously Republican voters are of higher quality than Democratic voters, am I right?

Republican lawmakers are also involved in overseeing a “test” of Maricopa County’s voting machines. Although the GOP-controlled Maricopa County regulator has already overseen two tests of the voting machines, this has not been good enough for the Arizona Senate, which insists on taking its own action. Senate President Karen Fann has not picked up the ballot boxes after a lawsuit led to orders to cast all 2.1 million ballots and their associated voting machines, as Maricopa County officials told her they had nothing to do with her fraud want to do efforts to sow more doubts about the choice. In fact, few people want to be involved, from current and retired electoral officials in the state and county to Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.

Instead, Ken Bennett, the former Secretary of State who most recently led a doomed campaign against Governor Doug Ducey, volunteered to oversee the audit. Bennett, who has turned into a Trumpster at some point in the past four years, consumes the last of his once solid reputation in this exercise. All we can say is that we liked him better when he stacked boxes of Kleenex to explain the state budget.

In the meantime, Fann has placed an order with a company called Cyber ​​Ninjas to conduct the audit, which will include a hand-counting of ballot papers, which will be done exclusively by volunteers. We don’t doubt the numbers tabulated by disgruntled Republican activists who volunteer for such an effort will be any different from the number of machines, but that’s because human error in counting ballots is far more likely is called machine failure. Anyone who knows anything about elections knows that it is true.

Cyber ​​Ninjas is led by Doug Logan, and it took Capitol reporters about an hour to find out the guy was tweeting bullshit about election theft.

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“Logan deleted his @securityvoid Twitter account sometime in January,” wrote Jeremy Duda, a reporter for the Arizona Mirror. “However, online archives show extensive activity in support of the Stop the Steal movement, which has repeated false and unfounded claims that Biden won 2020 through electoral fraud.”

In addition, Logan wrote a document on election fraud that was posted on Trump attorney Sidney Powell’s website. Yes, this is the same Sidney Powell defending himself against a billion dollar lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems by filing papers in court that no reasonable person would believe what they said about election fraud.

The real problem here isn’t electoral fraud – it’s the pathetic efforts of some Republicans to sow doubts about the election with bullshit like Senate scrutiny. And The Skinny isn’t the first to notice that there aren’t any facts to convince those who don’t believe the choice was legitimate. Audits like the one the Senate is doing are meant to cloud the water and not reach the truth.

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