Rumors Lies And Election Audit
The following article, Arizona Will Replace Voting Machines After Election Audit Concludes, was first published on Flag And Cross. "They were very familiar with the processes that were under Wake’s direction, and so most of the Wake contract employees will move underneath StratTech’s supervision and we will continue right on forward," Bennett said. There are still Republicans in this state who understand the folly of what is happening and the damage it will do, not only to our elections and the State of Arizona but to the Republican Party. Now, though, as a slew of front-page news stories over the past several months have made clear, Republicans across the country are engaged in a blatant effort once again to engineer the outcomes of state and local elections - and on a scale far grander than anything some old-time Chicago ward heeler could have imagined. Republican state legislatures are even writing laws to make it possible to change election outcomes after the fact.
The Audit was called into action due to Democratic state House candidate Kristi St. Laurent being short 24 votes of winning the seat. In the deserts of the American southwest, an unprecedented political action rages this week. But the assault on our democracy has continued week by week, including a vote on Monday by the Florida state Senate to ban 24-hour ballot drop boxes. Georgia’s efforts to rig the electoral process have been among the worst, or at least among the most notorious, prompting Major League Baseball earlier this month to announce that it would pull this year’s All-Star Game out of the state. Wake was originally contracted to lead the hand count through May 14, but the process has gone considerably slower than expected with only about a quarter of the 2.1 million ballots counted by then. Local politicos have been growing agitated with the auditors as of late, with a number of officials vocally expressing their concerns about the process. The question asked if the state’s fire and emergency medical loan program - a pool of debt-financed state funds loaned to local departments - should be expanded to include companies with paid personnel.
CBOEC is responsible for conducting all elections within the City of Chicago per the State Election Code, and is funded by both the City of Chicago and Election Audit Cook County. OIG audited the financial and human resource operations of the Chicago Board of Election Audit Commissioners (CBOEC). Although CBOEC challenged OIG’s jurisdictional authority, OIG completed the audit pursuant to its designation as an independent, external auditor by the Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court. Although CBOEC was informed of many of these gaps in May 2009, CBOEC did not implement many of the corrective actions it committed to undertake. Now, the Secretary of State is suggesting that the audit may have even created a new cybersecurity issue that could cost Arizona quite a bit of money. The Arizona state Senate used its subpoena power to take possession of all 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County and the machines that counted them, along with computer hard drives full of data. That would remove the machines from service. In the middle of the last century, lore has it, political machines in Cook and St. Clair counties routinely stole votes for Democrats while their counterparts in Kankakee, DuPage and Sangamon counties routinely stole for Republicans.
By Election Day, next Tuesday, the presidential race is expected to end up seeing $6.6 billion in total spending, while congressional races are anticipated to finish with just over $7 billion. That total is more than half of the total number of Alaska votes cast in the 2016 presidential election. "Occasionally OAN has talent that are eager to move up, but we simply don’t have immediate openings in desired positions or our management feels more development time is needed," Herring claimed to The Daily Beast. Now, it has also produced a bombshell: The election officials don’t even have the passwords to the voting machines. About an hour later, Fann replied, "Ultraviolet lamps don’t show watermarks because there aren’t any. There was truth to this. As you can read in my article on if John Roberts visited Epstein’s island, there is normally evidence for and against conspiracies. ABC News' Devin Dwyer, Cheyenne Haslett, Alex Hosenball, Kendall Karson, Adam Kelsey, Soo Rin Kim, Allison Pecorin, Olivia Rubin, Benjamin Siegel, Matthew Mosk, John Santucci, Michelle Mendez and Matthew Fuhrman contributed to this report.
