American Hardwood said:As Hawg can attest, having all of these other 'audits' and recounts performed by the very people who would be culpable doesn't bode well either.Malibu2 said:American Hardwood said:Nothing in your statement would prove that the audit is invalid. The CEO stuff might create questions of motive, but motivation alone doesn't disqualify the process. Disregarding the audit before you see the results or studying the methods used means that YOU have ceded objectivity in favor of partisanship. So by your own standard, everything you say on the subject should not be considered valid.Malibu2 said:torrid said:
This audit is going to answer everyone's questions and will be the gold standard for all future elections.
No, it won't. When your audit is led by a firm that hasn't ever done this before and headed by a CEO who has penned Q Anon conspiracy theories and pledged that this election was fraudulent prior to the audit, you have ceded objectivity and credibility in favor of partisanship. Imagine the shoe was on the other foot and Daily Kos was leading the audit, y'all would rightfully snicker.
I have no objections to an election audit in principle run by neutral third parties. This audit isn't that.
Of course they can do everything above board correctly and the process may be unimpeachable. For all I know it is. But motive doesn't give me a bit of confidence that they're searching for truth, it gives me confidence that they're searching for a fact pattern to fit a preordained conclusion. We will now have to audit the auditors, ad nauseum. This was a preventable error. We live in a huge country filled with qualified people to do this. Arizona picked the Q Anon election fraud guy which doesn't bode well for this process.
How about the motive of the people running the elections in these precincts? What if they weren't looking for the truth either? What if they wanted an election result that fit a preordained conclusion? Your concern seems to be particularly one-sided.
I'm not against audits. I'm against audits run by conspiracy theorists with an obvious agenda. If Cyber Ninjas finds something, surely you're not against Daily Kos auditing their process, correct?
