Roopali Desai, attorney for Arizona Democrats suing to stop the Republican ballot audit stunt, talks with Rachel Maddow about the case against how the audit is being conducted, concerns about transparency in what is, on its face, an agenda-driven endeavor, and concerns, also, about the long term effects on democracy of what Arizona Republicans are attempting to do. Aired on 04/27/2021.
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Company Hired For AZ Republican Ballot Audit Stunt Abandons Pretense Of Transparency | Rachel Maddow
A lot of countries are going to give USA the middle-finger when USA next tries to act as a fair election monitor.
@Frank E , So acuseing someone.. is different than calling them a name?
@Frank E , you sir have yet to r reveal?? What magical country you come from? While criticizing others! So put up or shut up… Prove your country morally Superior?
@Jason Dixon
What did I accuse you of?
@Frank E , Not playing your game.. what county are you From?
@Frank E , What county are you from? It’s a very simple question. You do know where you live right? You have elective officials right? Are you embarrassed by your country?;you said a long the line of..” america has no rights in other countries elections… Right? I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU! But you couldn’t stop there could you? So what country are you from? A question so simple?!even a Antifa member could awnser it….
Why are Arizona tax payers forced to pay without full disclosure of exactly how they are going about this fourth recount in Arizona except this time it’s “Cyber Ninjas” who showed up with blue pens in hand, and as politically motivated as you can get. We need oversight. Each Arizonan will need to validate their ballot, to confirm as it should be traceable.
@ZigZag We ALREADY know it was accurate. And stay tuned on the Russiagate–they just found out more about what Manafort did. Anyone who doesn’t think Trump was involved in that has not paid attention to the way Trump operates–NO ONE around him makes a move like the moves Manafort and Flynn made without the O.k. directly from Trump–and you know it! After all the lying about the election, the Ukraine call, the calls to the secretaries of state to pressure them into throwing out votes or find votes, the insurrection rally, the insurrection to stop the certification of the election—you bet I believe he colluded with Russia!! He has proven he will literally do anything to win. He would sell this country out in a heartbeat!
@Stephanie Fetner ballots can be filled out with Black and blue.
you can recount like Ga the same fraud vote is an audit nit recount educate yourself
You’re worried about taxpayers paying 150k for an audit. We are closing in on a billion dollars for troops to surround DC. 10 trillion in proposed spending in 100 days. This why the dems are considered the party of hypocrisy. Also, the citizens of Arizona demanded this audit so I think they will be fine with bill.
@karmakazi219 The big lie? 😂 someone is on the DNC email chain of approved synonyms.
Any machines they have secretly touched should never be used for voting again! No longer secure!
@Super Star 😅lol..
@Super Star So tell me, what “mountains of evidence” did the “…the ENTIRE WORLD” pass around? And why wasn’t that evidence that apparently the “…the ENTIRE WORLD” was privy too, presented in the 60, that’s SIXY, SIX OH court cases that trump lost? Including a supreme court packed with trump appointed justices?
@Super Star 😅lol..
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Poor Merick Garland is going to be even busier. This whole charade needs to stop, be invalidated, and anyone involved needs to go to jail. Come on!!! What the heck!!??
One Republican analyst put it best: they’re trying to keep alive the ILLUSION of voter fraud, in order to keep their base from dissipating until the next election. They don’t care how much damage they do to our Democracy along the way….
@Larry Paul Supported by a judge, Timothy Thomason, who is in the pockets of the Republican Party. It is a charade because it is being led, funded and supported by people with documented records of promoting the lie that the Arizona vote was stolen from the loser Donald Trump. It was not stolen. Legally register, long term, Arizona voters happily voted trump out of office. Additionally, Senate Republicans are spending at least $150,000 in taxpayer money for the “audit”, according to official documents. And we won’t discuss the ongoing private fund-raising that currently totals another $150,000 in donations from undisclosed sources to support this charade. Aren’t you people tired of giving your hard earned money away to charlatans.
Yeah, the whole thing just screams of legitimacy…..sarcasm intended.
@Matt Caulfield how were they wrong about impeachment and Russia? This ought to be good.
@SBS.2 and now you have a judge that’s in the Clintons pockets that has taken over the case…
So you’re point about a charade has just begun.
@Archaeopter X they told you he would be removed from office repeatedly for 4 years straight hahahahaha, but you all will deny that and act like the congress-only impeachments mean anything, instead of admitting you got played for ratings haha
Hi Rachel Anne.👋🍺.
Me, when a dolt is doing something dumb, do not interrupt the dolt.😂😂.
Its obvious no matter what the outcome, they plan to say they found massive fraud.
This argument doesn’t hold water, you can’t just say we found fraud, you have to prove it a the court of law, step by step everything you did to come to that conclusion so if you guys think Joe Biden really got 12million more votes than Barack Obama you should have nothing to worry about.
@Stephano Sorelli You guys can’t whine for 4 straight years about how Trump got record hate – and then also be surprised when a record number of people come out to vote him out. Pick a lane.
@Waterborne Camper Huh, what the heck did I just read, I never thought he got record hate, I think all the hate came and still comes from the left.
@Rebecca Lynn No there wasn’t. You dipschitt
@Jason Myers , He created Space Force so you could join it. So why haven’t you sent in your application yet? What kind of badass killer are you, anyway??
The worst part is that the more you ask these guys to open up their procedures to you, the more they’re going to dig in and refuse to show you. But also, we know full well that they’re trying to change ballots and disqualify ballots for no reason.
The fraud was committed before this audit.
The same Q anons who warned you about Epstein island? I mean look at the people who visited that island. And you want to believe these psychos?
We know MSM are dishonest. You really shouldn’t believe what they say.
Which is why they are trying to discredit the people doing the audit. Not what the audit actually reveals.
@Rolf Jander if Biden lost, democrats would be doing the same thing. Not sure why people are upset. You’d figure bringing in a 3rd party to ensure election integrity would be a good thing. If they find major discrepancies, then it’s on to other contested states. They find out Biden cheated, then we have a massive issue that needs to be fixed. The president is chosen by the people, and if you cheat the election, how will people ever trust the system. If cheating is discovered that could over turn the election, then that’s the will of the people. I mean, if people do not like our system, they can always relocate to country they like better. Nothing is stopping people from moving out of the US.
@ZigZag Good one!
@Barbara Ferrara where did you hear about QAnon? MSNBC? It’s not a real thing. Made up to distract and discredit conservatives. It’s just another liberal hoax, like Russia gate
*The Cyber Ninjas’ 1st action was to use BLUE INK PENS around the ballots. They should ALREADY be under arrest for ballot tampering!*
@Tye 3×3 if you dont like it leave then ? Bye Felicia !!!!!
@David Staley Who told you that? djt or qanon?
@Tye 3×3 well if “you” won fair and square why worry about the audit?
@noddyspuncture Just curious; can you name your municipal clerk without looking it up? Your county clerk?
It was actually read but go on lol the election they were using blue pens and sharpies but go ahead. Funny how nobody from the republican side couldn’t observe the counting of ballots but go ahead with your false narrative
They just gave a whole new meaning to the phrase ” STOP THE STEAL “
@what the falk! We all knew there would be fraud. Trump mentioned it even before the election
Republicans; “Stop the Steal!”
Democrats; “Stop the Stupid!”
@Logan M He also said specifically that there were 3 million fraudulent ballots in the 2016 election. Somehow, none of those have ever been found. Why aren’t we getting to see these too?
@E H Because they don’t exist. 45 lives in a delusional alternate reality. lt is so obvious that it is only the cult who cannot see it.
@Nancy Ross Thank you, Nancy..😁
The judge who approved this “audit” should probably be financially audited themselves, and then be asked to explain their legal basis for allowing this AZ fraudit.
@Josh Lee “your people” Pardon me?
@Christopher Hyndman people living in leftists democrat ran places
If you’re black and trying to make this a racial thing
Blacks were not fleeing the riots they were the ones rioting
@Christopher Hyndman without supervision? What are the cameras and live stream? Is that fake ?
@Lisa Jarvie So the company refusing (in court) to disclose how the ballots would be recounted are having a livestream?
Election officials didn’t stay in possession of the ballots which are now in the hands of MAGA fanatics. People crazy enough to storm the Capitol and then pretend like it wasn’t an insurrection would certainly fake anything they can.
The crazy has been well documented, none of the MAGA freaks should ever be trusted with anything again.
@JRivera Let’s see the objective, credible, reliable, source-referenced facts which support that assertion and conclusion.
Time starts now.
5:20 They want to protect their “trade secrets”? Hahahaha! What kind of trade secrets could they have…they’ve never audited an election before!
Long over due.
The apes they’re catering to “don’t know nothing about that” lolol
I hope that all the ballots were photographed so any changed made by this star chamber can be revealed.
Michael Murphy Star chamber. Perfect!
@Larry Mayfield And where and to whom will those copies be distributed? There’s no rational basis for taking photographs of ballots except for nefarious reasons. As long as the ballot numbers in the register and the hand count of the ballots equals the machine count there can be no fraud!
That was proven already: three times by GOP officials and publicly stated to be accurate. Where they lying? Secretly hoping for a Biden win?
@vadermask//mass retaliation Right? Isn’t it weird how they are terrified of what they will find now. Democrats desperately trying to stop it. But I’m sure it’s all to protect the confidentiality of anonymous ballots
Fortunately they have already been thoroughly audited three times by genuine authorised auditors, so when this group of right wing tinfoil-hatter start claiming they’ve found errancy we’ll know they’ll be lying.
@vadermask//mass retaliation Well the democrat did win. And celebrated three times, because that’s how many times they were recounted. Now when this bunch of shady rightwing nutjobs come up with a different result we really _will_ smell a rat.
The beginning of the fall of another great empire
It’s obvious they are determined to “find” the votes that their orange master was looking for and will do what ever it takes to appease him, even if it means committing actual voter fraud!!!
Then the democrats get to do an audit of the republican audit? 😆
@nodaklojack Democrats are criminals
@Timothy Adair Timmy, Timmy…
@Timothy Adair – “Fraudulent election”/ Because you lost?Hahahahaha
@Henry McCoy can’t recall anyone named Timothy that was on the ballot for the 2020 election, so how does that make him a looser?
But I do recall four years worth of “Russian collusion” conspiracy theories being reported over and over again by the real problems in the US,
CNN/MSNBC etc
Whatever the outcome of this audit (or others yet to come) don’t matter much to myself, but what’s happening is well deserved and brought on by those who helped that whole Russian collusion thing too go on for so long that’s ultimate goal was to create division….
btw, I consider myself an independent because I don’t much like either party Democrat or Republican.
The AZ newspaper reporter that got to be a observer on the first day said they had not read the rules & guides on how to do their job by using blue ink pens to mark ballets. Plus days before they let people into the building.
That would only matter if this was an election. It’s not, so pen colors don’t matter.
Total scam by Repukes. The ballots are tampered days ago. CyberNinja sounds like a new series from Marvel Comics. Typical Repuke scam playbook. Hosted by Gov. Duncey.
They are still running them thru the computer counters so if they mark any in blue ink it might get them rejected in the new count. It won’t change the election but it will cast doubt on election fraud false claims.
Thanks for covering this, keep it up. We need to get more observers in there.
The blatant hypocrisy here with them wanting secrecy after all the outrage on non-transparency is so disgusting it’s enough to make one physically ill.
We aren’t being secretive. That report is false. The Dems are just looking for company to join their corrupt ballot handling, but instead we are being transparent
@Piercey Pridemore “We”? By only allowing OANN access into the “audit” after they donated money to Cyber Ninjas?
@Piercey Pridemore
Yeah nothing about what “you” (apparently) are doing with that recount is transparent.
FairPlay;)
Stalin: “Who votes is not what matters. What matters is who counts the votes.”
Pure stupidity on your part, pal
Yeah like on Nov 3rd 2020 smh…
“Trade secrets”? Let me guess, they are going to use the fingers on BOTH their hands 😜.
That’s as ignorant as Rachel
They don’t want anyone to learn their “expert method” of commiting legitimate election fraud under the guise of a “legitimate audit”. It’s a special, “proprietary” procedure that other Q-aligned, wannabe election “auditors” might steal for their own ambitions to commit massive election fraud. 🤯
I thought that one of election fraud claims was that there was no transparency when ballots were being counted, what the heck are they doing now???