Trump-loving Dilbert creator schooled by Republican official on election security

Scott Adams, the Trump-loving creator of "Dilbert" whose career was crushed after he spouted blatantly racist rhetoric against Black Americans, took to Twitter on Monday to spout claims about election security — and was quickly shot down by Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer.

In his original post, Adams conceded that, "We can disagree on whether there is proof the 2020 election was rigged," before asserting that, "We all agree our election systems are not fully auditable and lots of stuff goes 'missing' the day after the election."

"Our system is not designed for us to know it worked or did not work," he added. "That's not an accident."

Richer then chimed in to give Adams some information about how elections are actually run in the United States — and he revealed that the system actually is designed to be fully auditable.

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"Hi Scott! Big fan of your work (minus the racist stuff of course)," he began. "No election is perfect. And no election administrator would ever claim a perfect election. But U.S. elections are actually designed to be auditable; they must be reconciled; and they must be tested."

Richer then went on to document the process for auditing elections in the United States.

"For example, while some countries allow digital voting (e.g. Brazil) or even internet voting (e.g. Estonia), the vast, vast majority of U.S. jurisdictions (93%) use paper ballots," he explained. "This can put to rest any allegation of hacking. This can put to rest any allegation of "vote switching." This means there is an auditable paper trail that can be tested after the election."

In fact, when the Trump-backed firm Cyber Ninjas conducting its own "audit" of the 2020 election and confirmed that President Joe Biden did receive more votes than the former president, its workers did a hand recount of all Arizona ballots cast during the election.

Additionally, Richer noted to Adams that Trump and his campaign had the power to challenge the election results in court and their efforts were shot down repeatedly.

"I'm sure you're aware that were many, many legal challenges to the November 2020 election -- close to 100 by my last count," he wrote. "Many of these afforded evidentiary hearings. For a summary, see this report: https://lostnotstolen.org. For anyone claiming significant error or fraud in the 2020 election, that person would have to explain why the courts got it wrong, every single time. Or why plaintiffs consistently demurred when asked for evidence in court."

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