The Sizzle: A Captain's View on Today's News (12/31/2022)

Topic: Translating the B.S.

In this installment:
*Arizona’s Corrupt Election Yields a Curious Recount
*Political Commenters Are Asleep to Election Corruption
*Trump’s Tax Returns Are Out - And No One Cares

Arizona Recount Wraps Up

Three recounts in Arizona were finalized this week, and the results announced Thursday.  Republican candidates Tom Horne and Liz Harris prevailed in their recounts for state superintendent of public instruction and state representative, respectively.  Abraham Hamadeh, Republican candidate for Attorney General, came up 280 votes shy of upending Democrat Kris Mayes’s victory after a substantial discrepancy was resolved in heavily Republican Pinal County.  Recounts were ordered for these races because the top two candidates were within a half point of one another.

THE SIZZLE: This discrepancy from Pinal County is not insignificant.  In fact, it reduced Hamadeh’s margin of “defeat” from 511 votes to 280.  In other words, the gap between the two candidates was reduced by 45.2%.