Oh, Yeah, This Is Going To Go Well

Arizona investigators caught admitting they don't believe Trump's 'big lie' — and don't know how elections workhttps://t.co/reJY0rqsaq

— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 18, 2021

In what follows, Fontes is the former county recorder for Maricopa County. He's being interviewed by agent's of AZ AG Mark Brnovich, who is running for U.S. Senate and has launched an investigation into the AZ election in 2020:

In the audio, Fontes asked one of Brnovich's agents, "Is your boss that desperate in his primary that he's going to push this bulls*t narrative about a stolen election?" 

The agent responded, "Well, nobody's talking about a stolen election at all."

"But then why are you here?" Fontes asked, noting that allegations of widespread fraud have been proven to be false.

"I get the feeling from body language and stuff that you guys know this is bullsh*t, and I'm really sorry that you have to do it, but I'm happy to answer questions," Fontes said.

Later, Fontes asked the agent whether he had reviewed the state's voting plans from before the 2020 election.

The agent responded by saying that he had volunteered to serve as an election integrity investigator — "for some reason I'll never understand" — and explained that the position was new.

The agent later said, "We've never worked election stuff and don't really know a lot of the processes."

Wait for it....

In another exchange illustrating this point, the agent asked, "That's just the paper ballots, correct?"

"Well, that's the only kind there are," Fontes responded.

"Well, I mean people voting at the machines later on," the agent said.

"I don't know what you mean by that," Fontes responded.

"If I walk into a ballot place, do they do electronic voting at all?" the agent said.

"No," Fontes responded.

First question:  has this guy never voted?  Does he have absolutely NO idea how elections work?  At all?  Not even from personal experience?

"OK, so everything's a paper ballot," the agent said.

"Yes," Fontes responded.

"OK, I'm a little confused," the agent said.

Fontes told the agent he was "surprised and disappointed."

"You don't know that in Arizona, every vote is on a paper ballot. There's no such thing as a voting machine in Arizona. The fact that you're using that term is really disturbing," Fontes said.

Me, I'm gobsmacked.  OTOH, this guy could get a job with Mike Lindell at the drop of a hat.

I'm also perfectly happy for Trump to keep re-litigating 2020.  I'm sure it'll do him, and the GOP, a world of good.

And while we're on elections:

Mike Lindell gives Supreme Court choice to 'pull down' or 'do a new election' in Thanksgiving lawsuit https://t.co/IiDSB9dAuZ

— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 18, 2021

During an interview with Real America's Voice host Steve Bannon, Lindell explained that he will broadcast a 96-hour Thanksgiving telethon to put pressure on the U.S. Supreme Court to accept his election fraud case.

Lindell said that unnamed state attorneys general would file the case with the Supreme Court on November 23.

"This is Article Four of the Constitution," he insisted. "The guarantee clause requires the United States to guarantee the states a Republican form of government and provide protection from foreign invasion. That's just one smidgen of the case."

I think he means sec. 4 of Art. IV:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

Article IV is about legal relationships between states to each other under the Constitution, and about admitting states to the union.  In that context, this section refers to what the federal government guarantees to the states ("a Republican Form of Government"), not what the federal government owes to the states.

Honestly, how is it somebody hasn't swindled this idiot out of all of his money?  It would be like taking candy from a baby.  Pressure?  On the Supreme Court?  From a "telethon" three people are going to watch, world-wide?