Following the Battle of Ligny on June 16, 1815, at which Napoleon defeated the Prussian army, the Emperor assigned Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy along with a substantial part of the French army to follow the retreat of the Prussians while Napoleon took the direct road to Brussels and a confrontation with Wellington's army. Grouchy's task was to ensure the Prussians did not unite with Wellington.
Grouchy failed in his assignment. Late on the afternoon of June 18, General Blucher led his Prussians on to the battlefield at Waterloo, ensuring Napoleon's defeat. Grouchy never made it to Waterloo.
But I didn't mean to talk about that Grouchy. I'm the one who is grouchy.
I'm grouchy because after yesterday's report on the Arizona "forensic audit" by the cyber ninjas, there are still those who claim the Arizona election results were not legitimate and still believe the "ninja dust" thrown out by the audit team despite their own results - their hand count matched that of Maricopa County (actually Biden's margin got a bit bigger) and they presented no evidence to support the Dominion software conspiracy theory.
Living in Maricopa County, I have followed this much more closely than any of the other election disputes. The bottom line is pretty simple if you look at precinct results. The votes Donald Trump picked up in Hispanic precincts were more than offset by Biden gains in the wealthier white precincts; a pattern consistent across metro areas nationwide. End of story. Nothing nefarious in a County where four of the five Supervisors are Republican and the Recorder, who oversees elections, is a Republican who beat the incumbent Democrat in the same election alleged to be fixed for Biden and the Democrats.
I could go on to write another multi-thousand word post explaining why the allegations made by the cyber ninjas are nonsense, but the whole thing is so stupid I refuse to spend the time. Instead here are some references to better understand what is going on:
Open Letter to Arizona Republicans from Stephen Richer (R), Maricopa County Recorder
Maricopa County: Just the Facts - Myth Busters
Rob Graham Twitter thread on audit press conference
- extra added bonus - here's Rob explaining why the Trump Org and Alfa Bank servers weren't connected (relevant to my recent post on this topic), and which contains this observation:
The entire presentation today in Maricopa by Trumpists was the same conspiracy-theory argument: their inability to rationally explain anomalies. But the defect was in themselves not being smart enough to explain, not a conspiracy.
UPDATE: This graphically explains why Trump lost in Maricopa.
In 2020, ~100,000 voters voted for Joe Biden and then supported GOP candidates in down ballot races (state legislature / county). Ticket splitting was at its highest in precincts with high levels of 4-year college degree attainment and high median household incomes. pic.twitter.com/XuvJyIvDFe
— Landon Wall (@LandonWall_) December 1, 2021
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