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Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano had wanted to conduct an Arizona-style vote "audit" of his state's 2020 elections results -- but it's already hit a major roadblock.

CNN reports that Philadelphia County, Tioga County and York County this week all declined Mastriano's request to hand over their election materials and voting machines to a third-party inspector.

"The board cannot agree to the undertaking of your proposed review of the county's election equipment," Lisa Deeley, chairwoman of the Philadelphia City Commissioner's Office, wrote to Mastriano. "Among other things, there is no claim that Philadelphia County's election systems or processes were compromised nor is there any basis to jeopardize the constitutionally mandated secrecy of the votes cast by City of Philadelphia residents."

Deeley also cited the potential for the county to have to replace its entire voting equipment if Mastriano's third-party "inspectors" end up compromising it.

This is exactly what has happened in Arizona when the Trump-backing firm Cyber Ninjas compromised the state's election equipment.

"The letter from Philadelphia commissioners notes that replacing their voting equipment alone would cost more than $35 million and well over a year to implement," writes CNN. "Deeley wrote that cooperating with Mastriano's request would 'render it impossible for Philadelphia to conduct the November 2021 General Election as well as the May 2022 Primary Election.'"

Speaking on Steve Bannon's Real America's Voice show this Friday, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell explained why he pulled all his ads from Fox News after the network refused to air an ad promoting his "cyber symposium" that he claims will reveal evidence for mass voter fraud in the 2020 election.

"Fox News is completely part of the cancel culture," Lindell told Bannon. "They have silenced our voices, and mine being the biggest one ... they won't even report on news or an event anymore, so I said, 'You know what? If you're gonna do that to our country, I'm pulling all my ads, I can't be part of Fox News anymore."

Lindell rambled on for the next few minutes, slamming Fox for rejecting him and claiming that his company lost millions of dollars due to businesses rejecting his products due to his election conspiracy mongering.

"Shame on you, Fox!" Lindell continued. "I think it's disgusting that they won't even report like, the great things that are going on in Arizona, what they find in the audits. Steve, they weren't even there for our real president's rally in Ohio ... what are they hiding from?"

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According to Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman, the audit of the 2020 presidential ballots in Arizona's Maricopa County could have handed Republicans a tool to contest election results in other states if it hadn't been conducted by a group of misfits who ended up embarrassing the GOP nationally.

As it was, the liberal columnist suggested, the botched attempt to overturn the election results in favor of Donald Trump might end up being a gift to Democrats.

Getting right to it, Waldman called the disastrous and expensive exercise in futility, "... a kind of Renaissance fair for deranged conspiracy theorists and Donald Trump dead-enders" conducted by "the looniest bunch the party could find."

Noting the Arizona audit shenanigans even included searching for traces of bamboo in the paper ballots that would indicate interference from China, the columnist sarcastically suggested Americans should expect nothing less than "....the final report, which may at last reveal that it was aliens from the planet Xerpdorp, working with George Soros and D.B. Cooper, who stole the state's election."

"The Maricopa County audit, which Trump has insisted all along would show that he really won the state, has been such a farce that even many Arizona Republicans have tried to distance themselves from it. GOP state senators are feuding with one another over whose fault it is; the governor says, 'I don't think we should spend any more time thinking about 2020'; and the whole thing has proved to be a gigantic embarrassment," he wrote before noting the those trying to overturn the 2020 election don't represent the best and the brightest the Republican Part has to offer -- and he laid the difficulties on Donald Trump's front steps.

"One of the most remarkable things about 2020 is that Trump himself never summoned the wherewithal to put together a real effort to steal the election," he explained. "Though he had been saying for months that fraud was rampant and any outcome other than him winning was illegitimate by definition, on Election Day he seemed to be caught off guard. All his legal and PR maneuvering in the subsequent days was ad hoc and incompetent, one of the consequences of which was that many Republicans in his own government and at the state level were reluctant to help him."

For that, Waldman wrote, Democrats should consider themselves lucky.

"When Democrats watch a farce like the Arizona audit play itself out, they ought to say a word of thanks. If these people knew what they were doing, it could be even worse," he warned.

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