MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow warned that the “end of democracy” in the United States is imminent because of an emerging link between two lingering reviews of the 2020 election roughly six months after the contest.
After telling her audience last week that the GOP-backed election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona, will become a “very dangerous” story, the opinion host ratcheted up her rhetoric on Monday in response to the news that Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based consulting firm that was hired as the lead auditor, had been picked to testify in a lingering election-related lawsuit in Antrim County, Michigan.
Maddow took note of a statement by former President Donald Trump, one of several praising the Antrim County audit and predicting “startling” results with implications in other states, and a lawyer for Cyber Ninjas asking a court to keep its methods under seal as trade secrets in a lawsuit filed by Democrats who argue that the audit violates state election security laws. Specifically, she read a passage in the filing that says the firm “expects to have similar business opportunities to undertake such work for other governments around the country.”
Weighing two theories (that Cyber Ninjas has no processes and are “just winging it” or there really is a larger plan afoot to examine the 2020 vote in multiple states), Maddow took the development in Antrim County as a sign.
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“They are creating a new founding myth for Republican Party and the American Right: that Trump won the election and it was robbed from him and Biden is illegitimate as a president and they are starting in Arizona and even before that is done ,they are already moving on with the same cast of characters, literally QAnon conspiracy theorists … to go get this work done in Michigan, too, and then presumably, beyond anywhere they can get Republicans who hold power in the legislature at the state level to hire them, to make this happen,” Maddow said.
“It is so stupid. And, you know, if they can do it, and do it right, it’s also kind of the end of democracy. At least, the end of our democracy to the extent that our democracy is built on the principle of two major parties competing with governing visions that are fought out in contests where the people vote with ballots, they are tallied in a technocratically sound way, we accept the results, the loser lives to fight another day, and the winner gets to govern,” she said.
“If after every election you lose, you call in the Cyber Ninjas to declare the guy who’s now governing to be illegitimate and you to have been a usurped power,” Maddow said before a long, dramatic pause, “that’s a quick, quick, quick turn to the end.”
Both Maricopa County and Antrim County were won by President Joe Biden. But allies of Trump have been hell-bent on attempting to show that Dominion Voting Machines’s equipment and software were used in both locations to rig the contest despite past audits showing no widespread issues, assurances by election officials that their elections were secure, and massive, billion-dollar defamation lawsuits by Dominion.
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Cyber Ninjas owner Doug Logan has faced backlash over promoting allegations of voter fraud on social media. In the face of critics who claim that the Maricopa County audit is being conducted by “conspiracy theorists,” Logan has insisted that his personal views are irrelevant to the Maricopa County audit.
“I look forward to showing the media that this process is fully accountable and will yield results the public can have confidence in,” he said in a recent statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.
