The audit's going that well, hey?

From a recent report at Gizmodo about the crank led Arizona audit that has had dumb Trump cultists excited:

The Republican official serving as the Senate’s point man on the audit, former Arizona secretary of state Ken Bennett, recently leaked initial audit results showing the county’s original count was accurate and found himself locked out of the audit facility for days as a result, according to Vice. While Bennett told Vice he was trying to “work things out with [Senate] President Fann” and resume his role, in recent interviews he had also detailed being shut out of Cyber Ninja’s audit processes and admitted he had threatened to resign. He also suggested the firm might “force balance” their report, an accounting term for maliciously cooking the books with fake data. (As Slate noted, Bennett’s last-minute flip after months of promoting misinformation about the Maricopa County vote reeks of distancing himself from the disaster.)

At least two Senate Republicans who are responsible for helping bring the ongoing debacle about are starting to have second thoughts. 

 Scottsdale State Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita recently tweeted “it’s become clear that the audit has been botched” thanks to the “incompetence” of Fann, ABC 15 reported. Phoenix-Glendale State Senator Paul Boyer told the network he agreed, but had a disingenuous excuse: Republicans had supported the audit but “just didn’t think it would be done by a firm that didn’t have a clue of what they were doing.”

The faith based cultists will always have the "but they didn't disclose everything" line to take.  "The routers - what about the routers?"

Update:   dover beach, a long time commenter at Catallaxy, found that conservative Catholicism just wasn't enough faith for him, so he signed up to the Trump cult.  In cult world, attempts to limit the spread of invented disinformation is evidence that it must be true: