
UV lights, cars with Trump bumper stickers and a lack of transparency illustrate ongoing GOP-driven ballot review in Arizona
CNN
At the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, workers line up in their cars to check in with uniformed security. As each car files into the fairgrounds, they park next to the "Crazy Times Carnival," complete with the familiar sights of summer — a Ferris wheel, funnel cake and balloon games.
But these workers are not headed to the carnival. They're going inside the Veterans Memorial Coliseum to engage in a different sort of spectacle. They're ballot counters, working on yet another tally of the nearly 2.1 million ballots in Arizona's most populous county, Maricopa. But the agency directly overseeing these workers is not a governmental one, unlike the two previous audits directed by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. This audit is instead being driven by Republicans in the state Senate, perpetuating the falsehood that the 2020 election was filled with widespread voter fraud -- and thus stolen from former President Donald Trump.
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