The Arizona State Legislature has turned over the paper ballots from Maricopa County in the 2020 Presidential election to a private company. That company is looking for, or possibly creating, fraudulent ballots with the possible goal of overturning the Presidential election.
[https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/994246426/justice-department-shares-concerns-with-arizona-senate-audit-recount?fbclid=IwAR1jBXnvLd2-6QtXcS1SEYSYWc4Lgf1H78KGoBiZzfYfnIum03wpZZBD9No] and [https://www.democracynow.org/2021/5/7/headlines/doj_says_arizona_2020_election_recount_may_be_violating_civil_rights_laws_as_concerns_pile_up]
It is a direct attack on Federal election integrity in the United States. The process used in Arizona may also violate United States Federal election laws.
Further, the exercise may be a model of, and a possible rehearsal for, a country-wide attack on all Federal elections. It serves to damage the reputation of all elections and thus may lead some voters to place trust in a strongman instead of a democratic process.
Our democratic process relies on open and honest elections as its founding principle.
This challenge to a certified election must be stopped and any lawbreakers prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Some may argue that the process is a coordinated attack on election integrity orchestrated by some dark power. Whether or not that is correct, the result of the action can easily provide some future dictator with the tools to effectuate a coup d'état.
Even if the process is a relatively 'innocent' action by racists, it has already created death threats for the AZ Secretary of State.
[https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/politics/katie-hobbs-arizona-secretary-of-state-death-threats/index.html]
The United States of America cannot allow such actions to continue - this action must be challenged strongly and the perpetrators prosecuted for any illegal acts.
