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+But Randazzo’s tweet revealed a serious problem with the audit. The former lawmaker captured by Randazzo, Republican Anthony Kern, lost his seat in the 2020 election, and he was slated to be a member of the Electoral College if Trump had won Arizona. +

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+Kern, in other words, is participating in an audit of an election in which he ran for two separate public offices. That’s a conflict of interest. A candidate who was rejected by voters in 2020 has a fairly obvious stake in undermining confidence in the 2020 election. +

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+In a separate incident, a reporting team from CNN was confronted by three men in outfits that resembled police uniforms as another man wearing a badge from Cyber Ninjas accused the CNN crew of “trespassing.” The three uniformed men were not, in fact, police. +

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+The audit, in other words, relies on dark money to fund a dubious recount where ballots can be deemed “questionable” for the thinnest of reasons. Reporters, meanwhile, have limited access to the whole process. And they can apparently be kicked out for revealing information that makes the audit appear even more suspicious. +

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+What’s up with the UV lights? +

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+Perhaps the biggest mystery surrounding this whole circus is why, exactly, people in the audit are shining UV lights on individual ballots. +

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+At a press conference last week, a reporter asked Ken Bennett, a Republican former secretary of state who is the Arizona Senate’s liaison to the auditing process, what the UV lights are being used for. His answer was far from edifying. +

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+“The UV lights are looking at the paper. And is part of several teams that are involved in the paper evaluation,” Bennett initially told reporters. When he was asked to explain what purpose this process serves, he responded, “I personally don’t know.” +

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+One possibility is that the UV lights may be tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory. According to the Arizona Republic’s Jen Fifield, QAnon supporters “claimed that former President Donald Trump and others secretly watermarked mail-in ballots to prove fraud” shortly after the November elections — so the UV lights may be intended to look for these secret watermarks, which do not actually exist. +

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+Another theory is that the UV lights might be used to scan for fingerprints — some conspiracy theorists claim that, if fake machine-printed ballots were cast in 2020, those ballots would not have fingerprints like a ballot that was handled by an actual voter. +

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+A third theory, also floated by Fifield, is that the UV light may be used to scan for signs that a ballot was folded. +

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+In any event, the whole thing is bizarre. It’s unlikely that Republicans are exposing these ballots to UV light for no reason at all. But no one has, at least as of yet, been able to get a clear answer as to why they are doing so. +

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+This is all very silly, but it’s also very scary +

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+The GOP’s audit is such a clown show that it is tempting to dismiss it as the kind of Trumpian spectacle that garners a lot of press attention but ultimately accomplishes nothing. +

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+While Republican leaders can’t answer very basic questions about their audit — such as what the UV lights are for — one leading Republican has been fairly clear about what she hopes to accomplish once the audit is over. +

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+“How do we put election integrity back into our system, and that’s only what this has been about,” state Senate president Karen Fann told a local radio host last week. She added that the purpose of the audit is to “get answers so that if we have any problems, we can fix them and we make sure that the next election is safer, cleaner and run smoothly.” +

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+The apparent purpose of this audit, in other words, appears to be to find “problems” with the state’s electoral process that the GOP can “fix” with legislation — legislation that may resemble voter suppression laws that Republicans already passed in Georgia or Florida. +

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+According to the Brennan Center for Justice, Arizona lawmakers have introduced nearly two dozen bills that seek to make it harder to vote in the state. That includes 14 bills targeting absentee voting and a strict voter ID bill. +

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+No reasonable person could take the Arizona GOP’s audit of the 2020 election seriously. But the target audience for this audit isn’t reasonable people. It’s Trump’s most unquestioning supporters — both inside and outside of the Arizona state legislature. +

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