The partisan "audit" of ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona, has generated a bogus appearance of irregularity by lumping in early voting ballots with mail-in ballots. The list of people who were mail-in ballots does not include the early voting ballots, and this has been cast as a "mysterious absence".

This supposed discrepancy is an example of how Republicans leap from one falsehood to the next falsehood. When enough truth-despising Republicans repeat the falsehood, other people can be swayed by the sheer number of people and web sites repeating it as the truth, and Republican officials can use that as the basis to draw false conclusions officially.