Media Mention  /  September 24, 2021

CNN: What Arizona’s sham audit really taught us

Many of those who supported the “audit” have expressed extremely unhealthy views about politics and the election processes in this country, to put it lightly. Last month, Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers tweeted, “I would like to know if we have enough solitary confinement cells in Arizona available for the entire Maricopa Board of Supervisors” after the chairman condemned the partisan audit. Meanwhile, Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan appeared in a movie that pushes Trump’s big lie that the 2020 election was “stolen.”
 
This kind of extreme rhetoric, coupled with the web of lies and conspiracy theories, is increasingly spreading from the fringes of the Republican Party to the mainstream. And while Trump and his supporters failed to overturn the 2020 elections, charges of election fraud have already become a dangerous blueprint for the future, threatening to undermine our free and fair elections and stoke the potential for violence throughout the country.

 

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