What do you call what's happening in Arizona right now?

Like a recount, an audit, a mess?

It depends who you ask, right?

Andrew Oxford is a political reporter at the Arizona Republic.

So it's his job to find words for political catfights.

But finding the words for what he's seeing right now, a very public effort by Arizona

State Senate to re-examine the 2020 presidential election six months after the fact. Finding the words for that

is hard. Some people have called what's happening in investigation. Others use that word audit.

I read one liberal website. They're calling this the fraud it. Yeah, it's never been done before. That's for sure. So, you know,

figuring out what to call it is just the first step. Let's start by saying out loud, the

president is Joe Biden.

Elections officials around the country have affirmed this.

They've also affirmed there was no widespread fraud on Election Day 2020.

But here's what's happening in an aging sports arena in Phoenix anyway.

All 2.1 million votes cast in Maricopa County are being tallied up one more time,

not by elections officials, but by independent contractors.

I think what's interesting here is that, you know, some of this seems to be in response to

a number of conspiracy theories that have kind of been swirling around,

you know, Phoenix politics, Maricopa County politics, since Election Day. And, you know,

have been out there for months. I don't know if you saw the video of one of the observers

explaining about, you know, looking for bamboo in the ballots or something. The other day at the press conference, you were talking about bamboo.

What was that about?

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