They Don't Trust Election Officials, So They're Doing Their Own Door-To-Door Audit
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
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So some people who falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen have tried to audit the results themselves by going door to door in neighborhoods across the country.
NPR's Miles Parks and Colorado Public Radio's Bente Birkeland report on this canvassing effort. It's part of a controversial movement to galvanize everyday Americans to try to uncover voter fraud in their own communities.
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| 0:00.0 | Last year, two men came to Michelle Garcia's door in Pueblo, County, Colorado. |
| 0:05.8 | One had a clipboard and a baseball cap on. |
| 0:08.5 | The other wore a blue-collared shirt and a lanyard. |
| 0:11.5 | They wanted to know how she cast her ballot. |
| 0:16.5 | This recording comes from Garcia's front door camera. |
| 0:19.6 | You can hear the men say they're working to verify the 2020 election results. |
| 0:24.2 | Okay, work it out for shooting voters. |
| 0:30.5 | Garcia says the two men asked her all sorts of questions, pointing back to the baseless idea |
| 0:36.0 | that the 2020 election was stolen. |
| 0:38.7 | His specific questions were, did you vote by mail and ballot? |
| 0:42.3 | How many times have you voted? |
| 0:43.8 | He wanted to know who I voted for, who I supported. |
| 0:46.8 | How do I know that it wasn't changed? |
| 0:49.4 | A lot of it was targeted at the Korkin Recorder's office and that it was fraudulent. |
| 0:54.9 | She told them she'd never had any issue with voting and didn't want to discuss her personal |
| 0:59.4 | voting record. |
| 1:00.4 | They were very aggressive. |
| 1:02.4 | There was no boundaries with their assets or with civility. |
| 1:07.9 | They will push until you give an answer. |
| 1:10.8 | A few hundred miles west in Mesa County and Landman was cooking dinner when three women |
| 1:16.2 | knocked on her door. |
| 1:17.4 | They just said they were canvassing, surveying and asked if I voted in the last election and |
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