This article by Diannie Chavez is published by Cronkite News. Here is an excerpt:

Democrats went on the offensive Thursday, saying the Arizona election audit scheduled to be released Friday is a “cancer spreading through the country” as it is mimicked by other states.

The pre-emptive strike by Democratic legislators from Pennsylvania and Arizona came on the eve of Friday’s release of a controversial review of Maricopa County election results by private firms that has taken months and millions in mostly private funding to finish.

“The events in Arizona are spreading like cancer across this country,” Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Whip Anthony Williams said in a video conference Thursday. “Those of us who have been a part of the civil rights movement … those of us who are pushing against systemic racism … are now seeing for the first time in generations a pushback.”

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