The Daily Beast: “If Georgia officials thought they might finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief over half a year after the 2020 election, they have another think coming.
Fringe conservative activists are trying to take Arizona’sabsurd and aimless election audit circus nationwideas part of a flailing effort to keep conspiracies about the re-election bid Donald Trump lost alive. Now, two long-shot Republican primary challengers against incumbent GOP Gov. Brian Kemp are demanding a new audit in Georgia—a state that has had more than its fair share of Stop the Steal shenanigans—with vocal support from one of the original organizers of the doomed cause.
Arizona’songoing clown show of an audit, which is re-examining votes in Maricopa County—carried by President Joe Biden on his way to a narrow statewide victory last fall—is hardly a model recount. Plagued by errors and run by a Florida cybersecurity company whose CEO promoted election-fraud conspiracy theories, the process has become a headache even for some Arizona Republicans, who released a letter this week panning it as an anti-democratic grift.
But whatever headaches it may be causing for mainstream Republicans, it’s also breathing new life into the Stop the Steal movement and giving fringe politicians a cause to rally around. Nowhere is that dynamic more palpable than Georgia, one of the original breeding grounds for far-right mythology about 2020 voter fraud.”