A pro-Trump Arizona state senator called for the mass imprisonment of Maricopa County officials after they condemned the election audit
By: tcolson@businessinsider.com (Thomas Colson)
An Arizona state senator has called for members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to be imprisoned after they condemned the county's widely criticized election audit, and objected to related subpoenas.
"I would like to know if we have enough solitary confinement cells in Arizona available for the entire Maricopa Board of Supervisors and the execs at the fraud machine company," tweeted Wendy Rogers, a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, on Monday. "We are going to need a lot."
Rogers was referring to the baseless claim that Dominion Voting Systems, whose equipment is used in Maricopa County, helped flip votes from Trump to President Joe Biden.
"Should stolen elections be considered treason?" Rogers wrote in a subsequent tweet, referencing the baseless theory shared by Trump and his allies that the 2020 election was illegally rigged against him through widespread voter fraud.
Her comments came after the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors condemned Arizona's partisan audit of the election.
Since April, a Florida firm with no experience in election auditing - named Cyber Ninjas - has been recounting ballots in Maricopa County with the backing of Arizona's GOP-controlled state Senate. Several election officials, including Republicans, have criticized and mocked the audit.
After Arizona Republicans issued new subpoenas on July 26 as part of the audit, board chairman Jack Sellers said his officials had "little time to entertain this adventure in never-never land."
The Board of Supervisors' response also contained a letter from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office rejecting certain demands contained in the subpoenas. Those included turning over ballots or images of them, routers, and network logs.
"There was no fraud, there wasn't an injection of ballots from Asia nor was there a satellite that beamed votes into our election equipment," Sellers said.
"It's time for all elected officials to tell the truth and stop encouraging conspiracy theories."
They just go farther and farther into lala land...
Unfreaking real that they want to arrest those who are against this sham 'forensic audit' that had gone on almost five months.
And still issuing subpoenas. Imo with them wanting more and more, it means they found nothing.
I am sure their bogus report will say otherwise though.
Talk about a group of wackos.
Seems that the inmates are running the asylum in AZ.
Where is Nurse Ratched when you really need her?
I don't know how many solitary confinement cells are available, but I think one padded cell might be found.
Ruh Roh
I'll believe it when the paperwork is delivered.
I wouldn't be surprised if everything is being destroyed.
When we sold our home in AZ in November it was basically a financial decision. We're not gamblers and not really desert lovers.
Little did we realize how goofy Republican leadership could get.
We dodged a bullet.
2 bullets. that heat apparently accelerates the calcification of brain cells. it turned my uncle into a teabag.
I think its way too late for these people to change. We need all new ones in the Republican Party, which will take many years.
If she gets voted back in, it says more about the electorate Imo.