Eight Incredible Election Auditing Transformations
Democrats, like Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, contend that the audit will make absolutely no difference and will destroy voter trust. Georgia's Secretary of State has announced an issue in Fulton County involving reporting from Friday. Representative Finchem is running for Arizona’s Secretary of State in 2022. You can donate to his campaign here. If you want to reply, then register here. Mastriano: My impression of this right here is, this is the way you do it. Prior to Labor Day, 11 percent of pro-Republican ads referenced impeachment in some way overall, but that proportion dropped precipitously to fewer than 2 percent of pro-Republican ads in the post-Labor Day period. Forty five percent came from Congressional Leadership Fund and the remainder from Republican challenger Yvette Herrell. Meanwhile Senate Leadership Fund (1,867 airings) and 1820 PAC (645 airings) have led the list of pro-Republican organizations in addition to party sponsored advertising bolstering incumbent Republican Susan Collins whose campaign has aired 3,206 ads over the last few weeks. In North Carolina, Senate Majority PAC and AFSCME have been on air supporting Democrat Cal Cunningham (with 2,170 and 2,932 airings compared to Cunningham’s 6,088) while American Crossroads and Senate Leadership Fund have each put up more airings than Republican Senator Thom Tillis himself over the last few weeks (3,248 and 3,457 airings compared to Tillis’ 3,190). Senate Majority PAC, the most active outside group in Maine, has aired 3,706 airings on behalf of Democratic challenger Sara Gideon (who aired 4,301 ads during the past few weeks).
Democrats have clear and heavy ad volume advantages in every week but have generally focused disproportionately more on positive and contrast ads than Republicans, who have focused more on pure attacks in most weeks. House contest between Republican Elise Stefanik and Democrat Tedra Cobb has seen the most ad spending by candidates (combining TV, Facebook and Google) over the past few weeks ($1.7 million has been spent by Stefanik, who ranks first among all House candidates, compared to $1.4 million for Cobb, who ranks fourth). Jaime Harrison ranks second in recent spending and has allocated his activity similarly with nearly $11 million on TV (73 percent) compared to $4.1 million on Facebook and Google. Cory Gardner in Colorado has devoted nearly all of his media spending to television (92 percent) compared to 61 percent for Democrat Amy McGrath in Kentucky. Independent groups have helped to boost that total, sponsoring 36 percent of the ad airings in the Iowa race. House races have not featured prominently in advertising this cycle.
Georgia’s two Senate races have seen over 37,000 ad airings in the past two weeks, while the Montana and Texas Senate contests have each seen over 30,000 airings. One group that used to be active on television, Americans for Prosperity and its related arms (Americans for Prosperity Action and Americans for Prosperity Foundation), have collectively spent $5.4 million on Facebook and another $2.8 million on Google cycle-to-date, but notably has been absent from television. Most groups on this list have spent the vast majority of their money on TV ads, though notably Priorities USA Action committed over one-third of their $61 million on ads to digital. None appear to have reported about Dominion Voting Systems having 70 attorneys try to stop it. They campaign around the country and compete to try to win their party’s nomination. All of the airings attack Democratic incumbent Anthony Brindisi for voting in favor of impeachment and are sponsored by Congressional Leadership Fund, the NRCC and the Republican challenger Claudia Tenney herself. Another part of his theory was remote access attack to memory cards used with the optical scanner - which also require Internet or phone access to the machine or programming in the cards before the Election Audit or after the election.
Figure 9: Percentage of Negative (Attack or Contrast) Ad Airings in U.S. Table 8: Most Negative U.S. Republican Senate ads are more negative than Democratic Senate ads, as seen in Figure 9, which looks at week-to-week spending this cycle back to mid-September. The Lincoln Project has spent over $18 million this cycle on ads, with over half the total devoted to Facebook and Google ads. Biden has mentioned health care, jobs, and Social Security at a slightly higher rate in the last two weeks, while Trump has focused on taxes (in just under half of his airings), the economy, jobs, prescription drugs and health care. Trump released a statement to the public on Friday questioning, again, the lack of transparency of election integrity in both Michigan and Wisconsin, two states that had enormous numbers of suspicious mail-in ballots, which have yet to be examined and accounted for. Private fundraisers have boasted that they’re funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the effort led by the security consulting firm, a company not previously known for election auditing.
