The Republican official who leads the Maricopa County, Arizona, elections department called former President Trump’s comments on its 2020 election audit “unhinged” after Trump claimed that the Maricopa County database had been “deleted” and that ballots were “missing.”
“Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now. We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country. This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5. If we don’t call this out…” Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer wrote on Twitter.
Trump has claimed without evidence that fraud cost him reelection in Arizona.
Richer, in a separate tweet on Saturday, called on GOP state Rep. Leo Biasiucci to “help me call out this lie,” adding, “Here’s a great example of a plain-as-day lie that will lead our Arizona residents to think the Maricopa County database has been entirely deleted.”
GOP state Sen. Paul Boyer echoed Richer’s sentiment last week, saying the election vote audit “makes us look like idiots.”
Republicans in the Arizona state Senate advanced an audit of the 2020 election vote in Maricopa County last month, even after multiple audits since November concluded that the vote was counted accurately.
President Biden won Arizona’s 11 electoral votes over Trump by nearly 11,000 votes.
Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now.
We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country.
This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5. If we don’t call this out… pic.twitter.com/5tDy1wsZg6
— Stephen Richer—Maricopa Cnty Recorder (prsnl acct) (@stephen_richer) May 15, 2021
