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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,” which as recently as May 6 ridiculed Arizona over the recount, went back to the comedy well again ...

The story of Arizona's 'ridiculous' election recount © Getty Images It's been seven months since the 2020 US presidential election. Donald Trump may not have conceded, but he's 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 leadership post. And in Phoenix, Arizona, they're still counting - or...

BBC News image copyrightGetty Images It's been seven months since the 2020 US presidential election. Donald Trump may not have conceded, but he's 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 leadership post. And in Phoenix, Arizona, they're still counting - or technically, auditing - ballots...

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 Monday, a new contract between the Senate and the Arizona State Fair, the coliseum’s operator, had not...

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 Monday, a new contract between the Senate and the Arizona State Fair, the coliseum’s operator, had not...