If you want to imagine how bad & stupid things would have been in a 2nd Trump term—how accelerated the downward spiral of American relevancy could be—feast your eyes upon the marvels of the Arizona ballot recount, where conjurers may as well be dousing for demons in the ballots.

Looking for “bamboo” in the ballots to prove they are somehow smuggled forgeries from China to help democrats — not at all a totally made-up thing leveraging some lazy ideas about Asia (oh wait yes it totally is) https://twitter.com/dennis_welch/status/1390014544890658819

Using UV lights to disprove a negative — not at all a waste of time and money (there shouldn’t be watermarks, so we will look to be sure there are no watermarks, even though the idea there might be some is bananas-crazy-cuckoo-pants) — oh wait, i totally a waste of time and money https://twitter.com/nickmartin/status/1388558378146746368

Meanwhile there are major security issues — laptops unattended, data tamperable — https://twitter.com/mateagold/status/1390085880942039040

Calls for FEDERAL MONITORS because the process and security have been so bad https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2021/04/30/arizona-election-audit-experts-call-federal-monitors/4897058001/

It’s a literal shitshow

If you’ve ever worked an election in say Ukraine or Moldova, and some sketchy “election monitoring” group shows up, refuses to disclose its funding, has overt/malign political objectives — it’s like that but those people are actually counting the ballots in Arizona, not observing