This week in the saga

The chapter closes with its own answer. The audit found nothing that moved a vote; the decertification resolutions go nowhere; the courts will not open a ballot box. But on the twenty-sixth of November an Arizona state senator who obstructed the audit is out of his race — not beaten, just gone, forced out by the threat of a primary before a single vote was cast — and on the twenty-ninth two more Arizona crowns go out to people who say the election was stolen. That is what the two ways back turn out to be: he cannot undo the count, but he can replace the people who certified it. A poll in Iowa that week puts him double digits clear of the man who took the office, and he still has nowhere to say it but a sheet of paper.