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The GOP’s move to oust Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming from its leadership ranks for rejecting the false belief that the 2020 election was fraudulent appears all but certain. It is also just the latest example of the “big lie’s” spread. In Arizona, a recount sponsored by state Republicans is apparently looking at bizarre conspiracy theories of votes shipped in from Asia. State voting bills, such as the one passed recently in Georgia, would allow more direct partisan legislative control of election machinery. In statements and public appearances, former President Donald Trump continues to i...

Arizona Republicans hunt for bamboo-laced China ballots in 2020 ‘audit’ effort Sam Levine in Phoenix, Arizona © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Rob Schumacher/AP Arizona Republicans are examining whether there is bamboo fiber in ballots that were used in the 2020 election, an activist assisting with the ongoing audit of the ballots told reporters this week. The latest claim underscores how rightwing conspiracy theories continue to fuel doubt about the results of the results. “There’s accusation that 40,000 ballots were flown in to Arizona and it was stuffed int...

So now it's bamboo in the ballots? Are there are any limits to the Senate's audit lunacy? Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic This just in: A crack team of Arizona’s Senate auditors are scouring the southwestern United States in search of a panda bear last seen smuggling Biden ballots into Maricopa County HQ on election night. OK, so I’m exaggerating. A little. But it’s not far off from the present absurdity now underway at Veterans Memorial Coliseum where intrepid investigators – having been unsuccessful in their search for Trump’s secret watermarks on ballots – a...

Republicans want to expand the Arizona audit — but DOJ may shut it down Vice President Kamala Harris swears-in Merrick Garland as U.S. Attorney General Thursday, March 11, 2021, at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) Arizona's Republican-led Senate is looking to expand its post-election audit of 2.1 million ballots in the state's most populous county, while Arizona's Democratic secretary of state and the U.S. Department of Justice appeared headed to federal court to shut down the post-election exercise. On W...

Laptop computers sit abandoned, at times open, unlocked and unmonitored. Procedures are constantly shifting, with untrained workers using different rules to count ballots. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, on Wednesday sent a letter outlining a string of problems that she said observers from her office have witnessed at a Republican-led recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona’s largest county. Advertisement In the six-page letter, Hobbs wrote that elections are “governed by a complex framework of laws and procedures designed to ensure accuracy, s...