re: What's to be afraid of?

Troy MI

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You failed to answer my question: Would you trust a leftist organization or a company with leftist ties to conduct the audit? I fully support any independent audits. What I don't support is partisan hacks getting access to the only copies of the ballots. That's like giving criminals the keys to the evidence room! As you said, "Arizonia Senate & paided for by that State's GOP", but the company they are paying - "Cyber Ninjas" does not have technical know-how in election security and is owned by a right wing commentator You presume that I/people like me want to "sweep things under the rug". That's the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I want. I want total transparency, completeness, and impartiality. I don't trust "Cyber Ninjas" to do the ballot counting - at minimum, they have what is known as a conflict of interest. If you wouldn't trust a liberal owned silicon valley company to do the audit, then you can put yourself in my shoes and understand why I don't trust "Cyber Ninjas". Again, I ask you to have some perspective! If you can't give honest thought to the sentence I put in bold above, then I'm done here, and I fear for this country. As a side note, the Trump 2016 election interference debacle was related to foreign social media campaigns, raised questions on how foreign actors may be stoking the political divide, and investigated whether there was any internal co-operation - it WAS NOT trying to toss Americans' votes away. The latter couldn't possibly be more unpatriotic. As a post-post script, I've asked this question to several right wingers "What would it take to prove to you that the election was fair" - they respond, they will never believe it is, no matter what evidence they hear. So another question - Are you even willing to hear evidence if it's not in your favor? To give a more direct answer to your question: Partisan Hackery masquerading as an "audit" is what some people rightfully fear. AZ GOP could have hired a company that did not have a conflict of interest, but failed to do so.