A Republican official from Maricopa County, Arizona warned that as the former president stood up for the integrity of the 2020 election, people threatened to massacre the families of local leaders Donald Trump And other Arizona Republican lawmakers tried to sabotage it.
Bill Gates, a Republican member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors representing District 3, and CNN On Friday, about the threats he and other county leaders received as they countered lies and misinformation about the last election.
Arizona Senate Republicans Has been working with Cyber Ninjas in Florida Conduct extensive audits The state’s 2020 election results are driven by the debunked allegations of former President Donald Trump Joe Biden Won there through fraud.
“Unfortunately, the threats continue, and they are not just organic. Unfortunately, they are being pushed by members of the Arizona Senate and other Republicans across the country,” Gates told CNN“We received a call in the office of the Board of Supervisors, our staff, you know that our family will be massacred. And threatened us to stop standing up for good election workers in Maricopa County.”
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Republican leader from Maricopa County Repeatedly debunk And oppose Trump and other Republican officials’ baseless and often strange claims about the 2020 election there.
In the interview, Gates again talked about some baseless allegations.
“It all comes down to the question of whether the machines used in the November 2020 election are connected to the Internet, and they are not,” Gates asserted.
Local Republican officials pointed out that two independent auditors in Maricopa County have reviewed the machines and determined that they were “not connected to the Internet.”
Cyber ninjas and state Senate Republicans demanded that Maricopa County surrender the router for investigation. Gates explained that county officials have provided logs proving that the router is not connected to the Internet. He said the county was unable to hand over the actual router without severely damaging its information system, which was also shared with law enforcement agencies.
Trump supporters And conspiracy theorists——Such as MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell-Support the false claims that China used satellites to invade the 2020 election. As Gates and other county election officials explained, this is impossible because these machines are not connected to the Internet. Officials also pointed out that there are paper ballots and an audit has been conducted to confirm that the machine count is correct.
Nancy Przewrocki-the clerk in Delta County, Michigan, where Trump won in 2020-asserted in a recent interview with CNN that the ticket counter “never connected to the Internet.” Delta County is one of the targets of hackers and frauds claimed by Lindell and other Trump allies in the United States.
“Never connected to the Internet, anyway,” Przewrocki asserted.
Officials in Maricopa County completed a formal audit of the election results in November last year, but found no discrepancies. But driven by Trump’s false statements, Republican state Senate lawmakers have advanced their own audits.
Jack Sellers, Republican, Chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Exploded The “incompetence” of the network ninja in mid-July. He also targeted Republicans in the state Senate, saying that they “should be ashamed of promoting the “half-baked’deep rig’ theory”.”
Weekly newspaper The President of the Arizona Senate and Republican Karen Fann (Karen Fann) was contacted for comment, but there was no immediate response.
