8 Months and the losers are embarrassingly still counting votes

Fremont CA

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When will the madness end? I think the Democrats should demand a recount of Mitch McConnell, who won with only a 20% favorable popularity rating. PHOENIX - A growing chorus of Arizona Republicans is calling on the GOP-controlled state Senate to end an audit into Maricopa County's 2020 election results that is increasingly relying on disproven conspiracy theories to challenge President Biden's victory here. The audit, ordered by a state Senate majority that has bought into former President Trump's big lie about the results of the election he lost handily, is on hold until Monday. It has already dragged on well past the estimated time auditors said it would take to recount the county's ballots. But some Republicans say they hope it does not continue after embarrassing revelations that supposedly bombshell allegations by auditors who have perpetuated Trump's lies were in fact errors made by the auditors themselves. "I think they should maybe just call it quits. I don't think that it's going to serve any purpose. It's not going to change the election," former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), who has administered elections when she served as secretary of state, said this week on "The Gaydos and Chad Show." "The votes have been certified. Biden is the president. It's not changing. I say move on." In the latest salvo, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors urged Senate President Karen Fann (R) to end the recount after what they termed "false" and "defamatory" statements. The Republican Senate majority last week accused the county of deleting a directory of computer files. Trump cited the accusation twice in statements from his political action committee. The Florida-based firm overseeing the audit, Cyber Ninjas, is led by a businessman who spread Trump's election lies after November. Auditors later walked back that accusation after the Board of Supervisors issued a blistering letter illustrating exactly where the files were, and accusing the Senate of "a serious lack of understanding of election law." "We express our united view that your 'audit,' no matter what your intentions were in the beginning, has become a spectacle that is harming all of us. Our state has become a laughingstock. Worse, this 'audit' is encouraging our citizens to distrust elections, which weakens our democratic republic," the supervisors wrote. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R), who won the job overseeing county elections in November, called the auditor's false claims "unhinged." "We can't indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country," Richer wrote on Twitter, citing Trump's statements. Even one of the Republicans who initially backed the audit has now changed his mind. In an interview Thursday, just blocks from the coliseum where the audit is scheduled to resume Monday, state Sen. Paul Boyer (R) told The Hill he believed the audit had become an albatross for his party. "Who wouldn't support an audit? But the way they're doing it, it's embarrassing," Boyer said. "It makes me embarrassed to be a state senator at this point." "I feel like we're in this fantasy land," Boyer said. "I still have yet to see any evidence [of fraud], and I don't think it's coming." More on The Hill