5.7 million new reasons why Arizona’s sham election audit is a fraud

Imagine if you found out, after the NBA Finals concluded, that the league had not paid the salaries of the referees who were officiating the games.

Imagine if you found out that, instead of the NBA, a wealthy group of Milwaukee Bucks fans had gotten together and paid the refs.

And, not only did they pay them, but they shelled out millions of dollars.

Just how much credence would you put in the series’ results?

That’s pretty much what has happened with the sham election audit orchestrated by Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and her Republican colleagues.

Is the game fair if you buy off the refs?

We now know, after disclosures from the unqualified, totally biased “auditors”, as reported by the Arizona Mirror, that five conspiracy-spreading groups doled out more than $5.7 million for the count.

Groups like America’s Future, chaired by former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who would be in jail were it not for a pardon from his pal. And a group headed by Trump’s former lawyer, Sidney Powell. It goes on. Big, big money from people spreading unfounded claims about the election.

The conspiracy-spouting head of the unqualified Cyber Ninjas, who conducted the sham audit, said in a statement, “Our sponsors have raised and provided over $5 million; and tens of thousands of you have prayed for the work of our hands to determine (the) truth, whatever it may be…”

Determine truth?

HA! 

If the election isn’t rigged…

We have had plenty of indications that this entire escapade has been a sick joke, based on the amateurish, bumbling, completely unprofessional way the Cyber Ninjas and their cohorts have operated. Now we have 5.7 million more reasons why the audit is a fraud.

A hoax.

A self-fulfilling flimflam bought and paid for by individuals willing to fork over big money for their preferred and pre-determined “truth”.

It’s a pathetic irony, really. A sad sign of our times.

When you can’t prove a rigged election, you stage a rigged audit.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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