>> WELCOME BACK TO "THE CROSS
CONNECTION." YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS.
TIME TO MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.
>> HI.
MY NAMES BEN DAVIS.
IM IN TOLEDO, OHIO, AND I WAS
WONDERING WHY IS THIS RECOUNT IN
ARIZONA THAT SEEMS TO BE BEING
DONE IN SECRET NOT CONSIDERED
ELECTION INTERFERENCE UNDER
ARIZONA STATE LAW OR FEDERAL LAW
GIVEN THAT THEYRE TRYING TO
CALL INTO QUESTION THE VOTE IN
ARIZONA THAT I BELIEVE WAS
COUNTED THREE TIMES OFFICIALLY
AND CERTIFIED.
ISNT THIS A SELF OR POSSIBLY
EVEN A CRIMINAL ACTION?
>> BEN, THANK YOU FOR THAT GREAT
QUESTION BECAUSE, LOOK, IF
YOURE NOT OBSESSIVELY PLUGGED
INTO THE RIGHT-WING MEDIA
ECOSYSTEM THE ABSURDITY
SURROUNDING THIS QUOTE, UNQUOTE
AUDIT OF 2 MILLION BALLOTS MIGHT
BE EASY TO MISS.
REPUBLICAN, YOU KNOW, THE PARTY
OF VOTER SUPPRESSION, THEYRE
LEADING A POLITICAL TEMPER
TANTRUM IN AN EFFORT TO FIND
NON-EXISTENT EXAMPLES OF VOTER
FRAUD IN MARICOPA COUNTY.
OF COURSE, MARICOPA IS ONE OF
ARIZONAS MOST DIVERSE COUNTIES
AND ITS MOST POPULOUS.
ITS WHERE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
BEAT TRUMP BY ABOUT 45,000
VOTES.
THIS RIDICULOUS HOPE SEEMS TO BE
TO MAGICALLY DE-CERTIFY AND
OVERTURN THE RESULTS OF THE 2020
ELECTION WHICH IS NOT GOING TO
HAPPEN.
PRIOR AUDITS HAVE FOUND NO
EVIDENCE OF FRAUD, BUT LOOK,
JUST BECAUSE ITS BASELESS
DOESNT MEAN ITS NOT DANGEROUS.
MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR CHARLIE SIKES
SAID IT BEST.
>> WE CAN ROLL OUR EYES AND
TREAT THE ARIZONA AUDIT AS A
JOKE, BUT A CLOWN WITH A FLAME
THROWER STILL HAS A FLAME
THROWER AND THE DANGER OF THIS
IS THAT THIS IS SPREADING FROM
STATE TO STATE.
>> AND IT IS INDEED SPREADING.
JUST THIS WEEK GOP ACTIVISTS IN
MICHIGAN DEMANDED AN
ARIZONA-STYLE ODDITY ANDAUDIT AN
OFFICIALS HAVE COME TO, QUOTE,
OBSERVE THIS PROCESS.
WHETHER OR NOT THESE EFFORTS CAN
BE ELECTION INTERFERENCE UNDER
ARIZONA STATE LAW IS
COMPLICATED.
ARIZONA LAW SAYS THE STATE
LEGISLATURE CAN ISSUE SUBPOENAS
AND CONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS WHICH
IS HOW REPUBLICANS IN THE STATE
SENATE WERE ABLE TO LAUNCH THIS
AUDIT IN THE FIRST PLACE, BUT
THE LAW ALSO SAYS THAT AFTER
BALLOTS ARE CERTIFIED, WHICH
THEY WERE, THEY MUST BE KEPT IN
A SECURE FACILITY FOR AT LEAST
TWO YEARS AND BE MANAGED BY THE
COUNTY TREASURER.
SO THE LATEST NEWS THAT COPIES
OF THE BALLOTS ARE NOW BEING
KEPT IN SOME SECRET HIDEOUT IN
THE WOODS OF MONTANA HAVE SOME
LEGAL EAGLES RAISING THEIR
EYEBROWS, RIGHTFULLY SO,
ESPECIALLY SINCE CYBER NINJAS
HAS ZIPPY EXPERIENCE IN
RECOUNTS.
THATS RIGHT.
NONE WHATSOEVER AND EVEN THE
MARICOPA COUNTY ELECTION BOARD
HAVE CALLED THE AUDIT A SHAM.
STILL, AS RIDICULOUS AS ALL OF
THIS SOUND, NEARLY THREE OUT OF
FOUR REPUBLICAN VOTERS SAY THEY
SUPPORT STATE-LEVEL EFFORTS TO
REVIEW PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
RESULTS AND MORE THAN HALF THINK
THESE AUDITS WILL SOMEHOW CHANGE
THE OUTCOME.
YALL ARE THIRSTY AND DUMB.
THEY WONT.
AS OF TODAY, THIS UNDOUBTEDLY
PARTISAN RECOUNT OR AUDIT OR
REVIEW OR WHATEVER OFFICIAL
SOUNDING NAME YOU THIRSTY PEOPLE
WANT TO GIVE IT IS REACHING AN
END.
WITH ALL OF THE BALLOTS EXCEPT
FOR THOSE IN BRAILLE HAVING BEEN
RECOUNTED BY HAND.
SO, BEN, YOU CAN BET WE WILL
DEFINITELY BE WATCHING AND
THANKS AGAIN FOR REACHING OUT,
AND AS ALWAYS, FOLKS AT HOME,
ITS MY FAVORITE THING TO DO.
IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT POL
TUX OR POLICY AND YOU JUST NEED
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