Arizona Ballot Audit Descends Into Chaos As Republican Lies Keep Getting Busted

Doug Logan, the leader of the audit team in Arizona, recently claimed that there were 74,000 "phantom" mail-in ballots that didn't have a record of being sent out to voters. This was a pretty serious claim, and it only took moments before it was revealed to be a complete lie. Journalists were able to look through the official records and confirmed that these ballots were, in fact, accounted for in the send-outs, proving that these Arizona Republicans are going to lie all the way to the end of this charade. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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A man by the name of Doug Logan is the person in charge of the Arizona election review team and Mr. Logan recently thought he had the smoking gun to deliver to the public to explain why the Arizona election was totally fraudulent. And Mr. Logan said, listen, folks, we have 74,000 thousand mail-in ballots that haven’t been counted here in Arizona, but we have no record of these ballots being sent out. So if we didn't send them out where'd the ballots come from? Clearly, totally fraudulent, ha, we got ya. And then reporters in Arizona actually looked at the records of the individuals, which by the way, this information is available, they're able to look up and see which individuals requested ballots. Compare that to the individuals who sent it in mail-in ballots. And it turns out the 74,000 number was actually totally made up by Mr. Logan. It's not based in reality. The mail-in ballots that came back have all been verified as people who received mail-in ballots. Like there's, there's, there's no discrepancies whatsoever, like literally zero.

So he came out and he said, oh, we've got 74,000 ballots that we don't know where they came from and everybody else is looking at the roles and saying, they, they, they, they came from right here, right here on the paper. Do you see this? They all match up every one of them, your lying. And that's what we're getting out of this Arizona ballot audit, folks. The whole thing, as I've repeatedly said, as everybody has said not just me. It's a force. It's a joke. It's not a joke to them. It's not a joke to Republicans. But in terms of what they're actually looking for, it's a joke. And they know it is that's the worst part. You have Republicans in the state of Arizona who are now stuck between a rock and a hard place because they know that there's no fraud to be found, but they can't end the audit because if they ended the audit that would make Trump look stupid, that would make them look stupid. So they're stuck. They have to continue pushing this. So what we're going to continue to see as this thing rolls on it's now in its fifth month, fifth month of this started in April, May, June, July, August, we're going to see more lies. And the funny thing is to me, like if you're going to lie about this thing, that has the nation's attention focused on it, at least lie about something that doesn't take five seconds to prove wrong.

But Mr. Logan couldn't even do that. He just pulled stuff out of thin air thinking nobody was going to fact check him on it, but they did. It's a lie. It's a farce. It's a sham. It's a scam. This entire thing has been absolutely laughable from the start laughable. That is, if it weren't so serious about threatening, our very democratic processes. Republicans are trying to use the Arizona blueprint all over the rest of the country and not just right now with the 2020 election, they want to use it in the future for any election they may lose, that's what's at stake here. We know they're not going to overturn or find massive fraud with the 2020 election. This is a dry run, right? This is practice. They're going to perfect it. They're going to perfect their lies. And they're going to come back with it with a vengeance in the 2022 midterms in any area that they we've lost. Mark my words that's what Arizona's all about.