Y'all cried for 4 years when Biden won And are still claiming that election was stolen. Just might having no evidence. But don't worry. We're not going to commit sedition and storm the capital or anything like maga
What I cried is that the election should be audited. I have shirts that say "Audit 50" meaning audit the elections in all 50 states.
I had no proof that the elections had been stolen and said that repeatedly. Why would I have proof, that is what an audit would uncover. But my argument was that a significant number of people in this country do not trust the process and that in itself is reason enough to do the audit. If 1% don't trust the outcome of an election, fine, ignore them. But if 25% don't trust it you have a crisis to your democratic institutions. That number grew over 4 years to 40%. So my second argument is that the way in which those in power responded to requests for an audit were not helping the situation, they were making it worse.
I still hold this same position. If a significant number of people in this country do not trust the outcome of the election by all means lets do an audit.
Now they tried to say they did do an audit. That was simply a lie treating us as idiots. What they did was a "recount". An audit requires that you only count legitimate ballots, the recount counted all ballots without distinction. For example, you have to check the signatures, you have to look inside the Dominion machines software. They refused to do either and that of course did not help with the trust. In an audit you would do a canvass, so if ten mail in votes came from the same address you have to confirm that there were in fact ten registered voters at that address who mailed in ballots. They never did that. Again, simply causing the lack of trust to increase.
There were two objections to doing an audit. First, it would be unfair to only audit the swing states that Trump lost. I agreed, by all means you can audit an equal amount of states that he won by a close vote or audit all 50 states. No problem with that.
Then they said the audit would cost millions of dollars and be too expensive and a waste of time. It is true that to audit a large state like California or Florida would cost several million dollars. However, I did not think that was too expensive. The same people who didn't have the slightest qualms in sending $160 billion to Ukraine (and we now hear from Poland that half that money was laundered back to the US for the 2022 election) were complaining about 0.1% of that cost in ensuring election integrity and trust in this country. As for a waste of time their argument was not that they wouldn't find fraud, they willingly agreed they would. They were not arguing that the list of registered voters in each state didn't need to be updated, they agreed it did. No, they meant that we would not find enough fraud to overturn the result. So what? The purpose of an audit is not to overturn the result, it is to find and eliminate fraud.
Now if anyone wants to do an audit of the election process I am all for it.
But what was hypocritical was that many people, most notably Hillary Clinton and Stacy Abrams had refused to accept the results if they lost and yet they were accusing people of being criminals simply because they wanted an audit of the elections.
I have no problem with those who want an audit, I only have a problem with those who want an audit when they lose and then attack people who want an audit when they win.
