That's a false narrative.
No, it is accurate.
There was tons of publicity so there is no question they knew this audit was to take place.
I never claimed otherwise; what I did say was that their normal routines were maintained. They did not just stop doing their jobs so this politically motivated, amateur audit could interfer with their duties. The regular audits were performed, the votes were certified and the database was archived in preparation for the next election cycle - there are local elections, too, not just the federal ones.
Yet they removed the file, while leaving data from old elections still there!
Yes! Of course it was! The data from the old elections were undoubtedly summary files, while the detail records of each vote, including canceled and replaced votes, which totaled in the millions, were archived off the server. This is a normal process. The summary records from each election are maintained for use while the details are archived. Archived, not destroyed. The details are still accessible, but not clogging up the database needed for everyday use.
When they were questioned by state legislators, and it was broadcast on CSPAN, they failed to provide an explanation as to why the older election data was there but the data from the most recent audit was removed.
Citation needed. I do know that the audit ninjas originally claimed that the data had been purged completely. They had to walk back that claim pretty quickly as it exposed their gross ignorance.
It's too bad you were not there to provide this explanation, because the officials in charge had none. You would think that the officials in charge, who kept insisting how high quality the process was, would know more than you.
I don't believe that they did not know how the process works.
At this point, it is good for all Americans to realize what is going on. If there is nothing to hide, if there are no problems at all to fix, then those saying such should be eager to let the data be examined with no obstruction.
The data were examined, over and over and over again - much to the interference of the BOE's normal workflow.
Likewise, now that the weaknesses have been exposed, and President Jimmy Carter's election commission made this clear, a major weakness that makes cheating easier is the ballots cast outside of certified in-person election locations.
And yet, no credible evidence of this cheating was found! You understand, I hope, that much of the process has been tightened up in the nearly 40 years since Carter was president - even since Obama was president.
Back in November, we had Trump team folks claiming loudly that the voting machines switched the votes and that Dominion was in cahoots with Smartmatic? Somehow Hugo Chavez was supposed to be implicated even though he's been dead for nearly a decade. Since the people (Lin Wood and Sidney Powell) have been sued and since the hand count matched the machine count very closely, suddenly that has been forgotten.
The other weaknesses identified are in voter identification and chain of custody. Those who want to make cheating easy will oppose voter ID and in person voting and examination of the process, whether by observers or audits.
No, those who want to make cheating easy are going for gerrymandered redistricting and voter suppression.
They will not only push mail in ballots, they will send ballots out without people requesting them.
At least one state has had mail-in voting as the norm for years now. Yes, they do automatically send
REGISTERED voters their ballots because they don't have in-person voting.
Those who wish election integrity will do the opposite. As the next election approaches judge these people by their actions.
And thus the Big Lie continues unabated.
