1y ago

In a first, Republican majority on a Nevada county commission refuses to certify election

www.usatoday.com

Three Republican commissioners in a key Nevada swing county have refused to certify an election recount, creating new turmoil in a community that since the 2020 election has been a hotbed for election skepticism, misinformation, and vitriol against public officials.

The members make up a majority of the Washoe County Commission, a five-member board in the Reno area that signs off on all election results in the county and will be responsible for holding a similar vote after the Nov. 5 presidential election.

The secretary of state and attorney general said Wednesday night the commissioners have failed to uphold a nonpartisan law and are asking the Nevada Supreme Court to require the entire county commission to meet their legal obligations and certify the results.

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Beadles, who was unable to be reached for comment, told the commission Tuesday that he had an analysis from a mathematician and an artificial intelligence supercomputer showing it was highly unlikely that his candidates lost their elections.

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Anyone who refers to AI as "an artificial intelligence supercomputer" sounds like peak boomer to me
- Anyone who says "artificial intelligence supercomputer" used chatGPT on their phone
  
  I can only imagine what kind of "data" they think they are feeding this "artificial intelligence supercomputer" that is apparently counting ballots by not physically counting them? Also love that they supposedly have a "mathematician" also using some sort of "data" to somehow count ballots without counting them (and if this person exists they are almost certainly a high school math teacher that is just part of the cult).
  I'm sure what they think they are doing is using one of these error filled lists created by these conservative organizations, and then using statistics to try and show how the numbers have to be in their favor. They don't understand that garbage in = garbage out, and it's why nothing they are using is anything but a waste of time and wouldn't even be admissible in court.
- Robert Beadles is 47 years old. He was born in 1977. That's GenX, Mr. Vandelay.
  
  Peak boomer is a state of mind
  
  Jesus Christ. I'm 47 and I'm an idiot and I still know that an "AI supercomputer" isn't a thing and even if it was, it couldn't analyze elections like he seems to think it could.
  
  Reaganjugend eh
- Not only that, but if you trust AI to give you reliable, accurate information, you're a fucking idiot.
  
  I'll have you know that AI has not given me false information since breakfast and it's nearly mid-morning
Just the first of many, MANY more to come.
The Republican plan, rather obviously, is to take this election by whatever means necessary - fairly, or if that fails fraudulently, or if that fails by judicial fiat, or if that fails by force.
That's the biggest reason I don't even call this a revolution. It's a coup.
- Leave it to the boomers to create "quiet couping" :/
Have fun trying to 'vote out' fascism Nevada. Seems you're the first people who've been denied the right to the ballot box county wide. Hope you know what box is next. Lord know you have some of the loosest laws surrounding it.
- Um ackschually, the saying is
  There are four boxes to defend liberty: Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo. Please use in that order.
  So, they're not quite there. Yet
  
  Good luck with the jury box in this judicial climate.
  
  The jury box is already poisoned.
If this works, and I would not be at all shocked if it works, this is going to be every election in this country in a Republican-dominated area where the Republican loses at any position on the ticket. President is a Democrat? Refuse to certify. Dog catcher is a Democrat? Refuse to certify.
This is particularly interesting because its not a right wing opposition to left wing winning a vote. Its a FAR right wing opposition to a right wing winning a vote.
The vote Tuesday was against certifying recounts for a Washoe County Commission Republican primary and a nonpartisan school board primary, both on June 11. The recounts were requested by a Republican who lost to incumbent Commissioner Clara Andriola and a right-leaning candidate in a crowded nonpartisan primary. Both got funding from local activist Robert Beadles.
- Sure. “Reasonable” dipshit republicans have turned over their house, their car, and all their accounts to Demented Orange Rapist & Co.
  Now they get to knit their brows over it while doing nothing of any consequence to stop it.
Here we go. The traitors are at work again.
- They never stopped.
Every idiot that breaks civilization thinking “what’s the worst that can happen” deserves the worst that can happen.

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