An inconvenient conclusion about Joe Biden’s victory was buried in a three-volume report largely devoted to raising doubts about the legitimacy of the election
The Republican-led state senate instigated the audit by subpoenaing 2.1m ballots cast in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, the state’s largest city. It outsourced the logistics to an outfit called the Cyber Ninjas with no prior election-auditing experience and led by an enthusiast of Mr Trump’s “stop the steal” movement. The majority of the $6m raised for the recounting, which took place in a cavernous convention hall in Phoenix, was raised privately by ardent partisans.
Yet Mr Trump was not the least bit chastened by the results. Instead, he ignored the findings and declared it a complete victory. “We won on the Arizona forensic audit yesterday on a level you wouldn’t believe,” he said in a rally in Georgia . Mr Trump falsely claimed that the results mandated the decertification of his loss in Arizona. His most ardent devotees have not dwelt much on why such a motivated exercise could still turn up naught.
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