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View Comments For late-night comedy shows, the Republican-led Arizona audit of the 2020 election is truly the gift that keeps on giving. For people who live in Arizona, that means it’s a consistent source of embarrassment. The idiocy is funny, sure — come on, looking for bits of bamboo on ballots in a quixotic attempt to find tens of thousands of "illegal" votes with a straight face is comedy gold. Unless you’re the butt of it. Which, if you live in Arizona, you are. “The Daily Show,”...

The story of Arizonas ridiculous election recount © Getty Images Its been seven months since the 2020 US presidential election. Donald Trump may not have conceded, but hes out of office. Joe Biden has been president for more than 100 days. The drumbeat of policy-making has moved on to pandemic relief and infrastructure spending. And yet in Mar-a-Lago, Trump is still complaining about his election loss. In Washington, Republicans just booted Liz Cheney, who said Biden was legitimately elected...

BBC News image copyrightGetty Images Its been seven months since the 2020 US presidential election. Donald Trump may not have conceded, but hes out of office. Joe Biden has been president for more than 100 days. The drumbeat of policy-making has moved on to pandemic relief and infrastructure spending. And yet in Mar-a-Lago, Trump is still complaining about his election loss. In Washington, Republicans just booted Liz Cheney, who said Biden was legitimately elected, from her congressional leade...

Recount Faces Week Off The most visible piece of the audit -- the livestreamed hand recount of all 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots for president and U.S. Senate - is moving at a glacial pace.  At the end of this week, the recount will come to a temporary halt.  The Senate’s contract to use Veterans Memorial Coliseum for its hand count ends on Friday. The audit will have to clear out of the coliseum that day to make room for a week’s worth of Phoenix high school graduations. As of Mond...

Recount Faces Week Off The most visible piece of the audit -- the livestreamed hand recount of all 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots for president and U.S. Senate - is moving at a glacial pace.  At the end of this week, the recount will come to a temporary halt.  The Senate’s contract to use Veterans Memorial Coliseum for its hand count ends on Friday. The audit will have to clear out of the coliseum that day to make room for a week’s worth of Phoenix high school graduations. As of Mond...

It makes us look like idiots, State Senator Paul Boyer said of controversial audit Boyer, a Republican who originally supported recount, said: Looking back, I didnt think it would be this ridiculous. Its embarrassing    Republican-controlled Arizona state Senate ordered an unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County Karen Fann, the Republican president of state Senate who is leading audit, defended recount, saying: I think well find irregularitie...

Legislators in Arizona and officials in the state’s largest county clashed anew this week over election audit subpoenas, with county officials refusing to hand over routers and claiming they do not have passwords to access administrative control functions of election machines. Arizona’s Senate told Maricopa County on Friday that it would issue subpoenas for live testimony from the county’s Board of Supervisors unless it received the materials that are being withheld. “We’ve been aske...

By Caitlin Huey-Burns, Adam Brewster May 9, 2021 / 7:06 AM / CBS News Arizona GOP launches recount of ballots More than six months after his defeat in the November election, former President Trump is still claiming victory, calling the election "the big lie," despite several recounts and dozens of unsuccessful lawsuits that say otherwise. Although every state has certified its results, the Republican-controlled state Senate in Arizona has undertaken a full hand recoun...

Sun, 09 May 2021 04:00 UTC Votes are counted by staff at the Maricopa County Elections Department office in Phoenix, Ariz., on Nov. 5, 2020.Legislators in Arizona and officials in the states largest county clashed anew this week over election audit subpoenas, with county officials refusing to hand over routers and claiming they do not have passwords to access administrative control functions of election machines. Arizonas Senate told Maricopa County on Friday that it would issue subpoenas for l...

Legislators in Arizona and officials in the state's largest county clashed anew this week over election audit subpoenas, ...