Did QAnon sneak in (or get invited) to Arizona's sham election audit?

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Did QAnon sneak in (or get invited) to Arizona's sham election audit?

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Did QAnon sneak in (or get invited) to Arizona's sham election audit?
Opinion: A report by Media Matters says even more partisan political pranksters have hopped out of the clown car rolling around the fairgrounds with our ballots in the trunk.
EJ Montini | Arizona Republic
Add to the list of conspiracy addicts getting their daily fix of fantasy fraud at Arizona’s sham election audit the hopelessly hooked Trump junkies from QAnon.

Yes, it appears that folks who identify with the originators of the unhinged assertion that the United States (perhaps even the world) is controlled by a coterie of Satan-worshipping pedophiles operating out of the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor are among those with their fingers on our ballots.

Imagine that.

Although, it should not be a surprise.

How many clowns can fit in this car?
Afterall, the Arizona Senate Republicans behind the sham audit allowed former state lawmaker Anthony Kern, a conspiracy-spreading Trump zealot who was at the U.S. Capitol the day the insurrectionists stormed the building, to help count and inspect ballots.

Perhaps even your ballot.

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This after they hired a company, Cyber Ninjas, with zero experience in election audits and a CEO who’s a conspiracy-believing crank known for posting unproven allegations about election fraud on Twitter.

Then the company tried to keep the press and public out of the counting process and brought in a bunch of Trump acolytes to do the “unbiased” counting.

Much of this was documented in The Arizona Republic by way of the very fine work of Jen Fifield and Andrew Oxford, who provided an in-depth look at the zealots and conspiracy believers who have been running and participating in the sham audit.

Arizona election audit has a QAnon problem
A report by Media Matters adds to that work, pointing out that even more partisan political pranksters have hopped out of the clown car rolling around the fairgrounds with our ballots in the trunk.

According to the Media Matters report, at least two individuals linked to the Arizona Senate’s ballot-counting circus also have links to the kookiest of the conspiracy world’s upper echelon. Or, as reporter Olivia Little described it: “Simply put: Arizona’s election audit has a QAnon problem.”

The report says that a pair of QAnon supporters, now affiliated with the audit, bragged about their relationships with state Senate President Karen Fann and Republican Congressman Andy Biggs.

Who knows how many other members of QAnon’s digital cult have had access to ballots.

A few Republicans are speaking up
A few Republican officials are speaking up.

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican whose office already has done a thorough, unbiased, transparent and professional audit of the election results called the wild allegations being made by, among others, former President Donald Trump “unhinged.”

He added, “We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country.”

A while back there was an NPR/Ipsos poll indicating that a number of the craziest assertions made by QAnon and other digital rumor mongers “are gaining a foothold among some Americans.”

We can't go lower. There is no basement
One of the pollsters, Chris Jackson, said, “Increasingly, people are willing to say and believe stuff that fits in with their view of how the world should be, even if it doesn’t have any basis in reality or fact.”

Sadly, some of those people now control the Arizona Senate.

How crazy is all this?

Remember that wild claim about the United States being controlled by a band of Satan-worshipping pedophiles operating out of the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor?

The pizza parlor doesn’t even have a basement.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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