Pennsylvania election audit embraced by top Republican candidates https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...-embrace-gop-republican-candidates/117558922/ A Republican state lawmaker, bolstered by support from top Republican candidates, has launched a push for a “forensic investigation” of the presidential election results, a review modeled on the widely discredited process underway in Arizona. The effort is likely to face legal challenges and is still limited to three counties, where it is getting pushback even from Republican commissioners. But its march forward is forcing many to stop viewing it as one lawmaker’s pet project and take it seriously.
Pennsylvania’s Acting Secretary of State Decertifies Dominion Voting Machines After Election Audit in County https://trendingpolitics.com/pennsy...machines-after-election-audit-in-county-knab/ Dominion Voting Systems voting machines are being decertified after a Pennsylvania county’s election audit. Pennsylvania’s acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid made the declaration in a letter after Fulton County officials allowed third-party contractor to access data. The voting machines are purportedly not safe to use in future elections, and therefore will be decertified. “Following delivery of a certified and procured system, the county is supposed to independently perform acceptance testing on the system,” the Pennsylvania Department of State’s letter said. “Thereafter, the equipment and software are expected to remain under the full control of the county.”
When a scam audit firm previously involved in the Arizona fraudit screws with voting machines in Pennsylvania with no documented chain of custody or control then these machines must be decertified for future elections in order to maintain integrity of the voting system.
The DOJ will shortly be sending the FBI to Pennsylvania to arrest these "auditors" for voter intimidation. 'Election integrity committee' in York County accused of voter intimidation https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/...county-accused-voter-intimidation/5399739001/ A group calling itself an "election integrity committee" drew allegations of voter intimidation after its members reportedly knocked on doors across York County asking about how and for whom residents voted. York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler, who said she received numerous calls about the individuals claiming to be members of the committee, emphasized that they have no affiliation with the county government. The county referred the cases to the Southern York Regional Police Department, said Wheeler, a Republican who was elected to the commission in 2019. “I received some emails from residents who live in the southern part of York County,” Wheeler said. “I’ve spoken with the individuals, and we’ve turned the matter over to law enforcement.” Various local officials say they have received reports that the group is visiting residents' homes and questioning how the homeowner voted and who they voted for. The questioning comes as county officials weigh whether to comply with a "forensic audit" of the 2020 election spearheaded by state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin County. “There is an intimidation factor, and that’s what their intent is,” said Chad Baker, chair of the Democratic Party of York County. “The timing of this doesn’t seem suspect given the recent request of the audit by Sen. Mastriano.” The individuals claiming to be a part of the committee seem to be targeting Democrats in an attempt to seek out voter fraud, a baseless claim that has cemented itself as a rallying cry for supporters of former President Donald Trump, Baker said. Steve Snell, a Windsor Township Democrat who in 2018 launched an unsuccessful bid for the state's 94th House District, said he witnessed the committee's actions firsthand. On Saturday, he said, two women claiming to be members of the committee knocked on his door and asked to speak with his 89-year-old mother-in-law. "They did not ask who she voted for," Snell said. "If they had, I would have thrown them out. I regret that I was not more persistent in asking about the 'committee' that they said they represented." Vice President Commissioner Doug Hoke and Commissioner Ron Smith both said they were made aware of the committee's voter outreach on Wednesday morning, but they did not have any additional details. Southern York Regional Police Chief James Boddington did not respond to requests for comment. Jeff Piccola, chair of the York County Republican Committee, also did not respond to requests for comment. The GOP-dominated board of commissioners is in the midst of mulling whether to cooperate with a request from Mastriano, a Trump ally notorious for denying the results of the 2020 election, and his request to audit the county's election process. York was one of three counties to receive the request. Tioga County declined to cooperate, and Philadelphia has yet to respond. The deadline is July 31. Earlier this month, York County commissioners questioned the legality of Mastriano's demand, the cost to the county and the lack of staff necessary to fulfill the request. The self-proclaimed committee touring southern York County used tactics that were nearly identical to a forensic audit being conducted by a company hired by state Senate Republicans in Arizona. The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, in a May 5 letter obtained by The York Dispatch, accused the firm Cyber Ninjas of voter intimidation because of its door-knocking practice. "This description of the proposed work of the audit raises concerns regarding potential intimidation of voters. The Department enforces a number of federal statutes that prohibit intimidation of persons for voting or attempting to vote," the DOJ letter reads.
Philadelphia election officials reject 'forensic' audit request https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ph...lan-reject-election-audit-request-2021-07-30/
Pennsylvania To Start Forensic Audit Of 2020 Election https://teamtuckercarlson.com/news/pennsylvania-to-start-forensic-audit-of-2020-election/ Republicans in the state of Pennsylvania are moving forward with a forensic audit of the 2020 election. Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman took the place of the prior Republican who was leading the investigation into the election, State Senator Doug Mastriano. “It is deeply disappointing that Senator Mastriano has retreated from conducting a forensic investigation of the election in Pennsylvania, and it is discouraging to realize that he was only ever interested in politics and showmanship and not actually getting things done,” he said in a statement on Friday.
Pennsylvania Lawmakers File Lawsuit in Court Against the State’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Mail-In Ballot Laws https://trendingpolitics.com/pennsy...es-unconstitutional-mail-in-ballot-laws-knab/ The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was one of the key battleground states that was awarded to now-President Joe Biden after the contentious 2020 election. But now, state lawmakers are finally doing their job and contesting what they claim is an ‘unconstitutional’ mail-in ballot law in order to pretent another election debacle in the 2022 mid-terms. “Fourteen Republican state lawmakers have filed a new lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law, calling it unconstitutional and asking for it to be thrown out — even though 11 of those lawmakers supported it just two years ago,” the Post-Gazette reported.
Trump was right: Pennsylvania mail-in ballots decree was unconstitutional https://www.kabc.com/2022/01/31/tru...-mail-in-ballots-decree-was-unconstitutional/ State To Appeal Friday’s Court Decision Nixing Pennsylvania’s Election Law (Harrisburg, PA) — Authorities are appealing Friday’s state court decision that struck down Pennsylvania’s election law as unconstitutional. In Friday’s three-to-two decision, the court overturned Act 77, which reportedly permitted “no-excuse” absentee voting, created a permanent list of mail-in voters, extended the voter-registration deadline and provided almost $100 million in upgrades to the state’s elections infrastructure. In its majority opinion, the court ruled that voting “requires the physical presence of the elector,” and ruled that any changes to state election law must be reflected by amendments to the state constitution. Read more here: https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-nea...votes-2020-would-now-unconstitutional-1673974
Let's see the reality about the recent MAGA claims about election fraud in Pennsylvania involving voting machines. TLDR -- the claims are complete crap. Claim: On Nov. 7, 2023, Pennsylvania voting machines were “flipping votes,” which is evidence of “election fraud.” Pennsylvania voting machine error did not reveal ‘election fraud’ https://www.politifact.com/factchec...lvania-voting-machine-error-did-not-reveal-e/ A clerical error by a voting machine company caused votes in two judicial races to appear switched on printed ballot summaries that were produced after some Northampton County, Pennsylvania, voters cast ballots. Local officials said the machines recorded voters’ choices accurately and all votes were tabulated properly. A spokesperson for Election Systems & Software, the company that made the voting machines, said an employee made the programming error. The Pennsylvania State Department said this error was isolated to the two judicial retention questions in Northampton County. Voters were informed of the issue before casting ballots. An Election Day glitch in eastern Pennsylvania has some social media users declaring it evidence that the entire country’s election system is corrupt. Text on a Nov. 8 Instagram post read, "Are U.S. elections compromised?" Below that, the post shared a screenshot of an X post from conservative commentator Benny Johnson that said, "Voting machines in Pennsylvania are now being shut down after reports of machines ‘flipping votes.’ And this is why Americans have lost all faith in our electoral process." "Add this to the list of election fraud cases we’ve recently learned about," Johnson’s post said. The Instagram post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) This post gives a misleading impression of what happened on Election Day in Pennsylvania. Some voters in Northampton County, about 50 miles north of Philadelphia, reported seeing voting machines appear to switch their votes in two judicial races. But local voting rights advocates who reviewed the matter said they found no indication of election fraud. Voters statewide were asked to decide whether two sitting Superior Court judges, Democrat Jack Panella and Republican Victor Stabile, should retain their positions for 10 more years. Voters could select "yes" or "no" for each candidate. Panella and Stabile were not running against each other; both were seeking an additional term. However, Northampton County officials found that a voting machine programming error caused votes for the two judges to appear switched when voters’ ballot choices were printed. For example, if a voter marked "yes" for Panella and "no" for Stabile, the printed summary read "no" for Panella and "yes" for Stabile. Northampton County government officials said that despite this printer output error, their review of the matter found the voting machines’ backend system recorded voters’ choices accurately and all votes were tabulated properly. "What you read (on paper) and what the computer reads are two different things. The computer does not read the text that is printed out," said Northampton County Administration Director Charles Dertinger, who oversees the elections division, during a Nov. 7 press conference. Election Systems & Software, the company that made the ExpressXL voting machines, took responsibility for the error. Linda Bennett, the company’s senior vice president of customer operations, said at the press conference that "a clerical labeling error that was made by an ES&S employee" caused the printed summary to show the wrong vote selection. The county briefly took the voting machines offline Election Day morning when the issue arose. After obtaining a court order, the county was permitted to continue using the machines as long as voters were informed of the issue. Pennsylvania’s State Department said this issue affected only some voters in Northampton County, and only those two judicial seat questions. No other statewide races were affected, the department said. As of Nov. 10, the state’s unofficial election results show both Panella and Stabile retaining their Superior Court seats, each with a margin of hundreds of thousands of votes. About 60,000 votes were cast for these races in Northampton County. Five local voting rights advocacy groups, including Common Cause Pennsylvania and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, called the incident "an unfortunate situation caused by human error," but said it did not amount to election fraud. "This is a programming error that is being weaponized for disinformation purposes," Philip Hensley-Robin, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, told PolitiFact. The voting rights groups urged election officials to investigate the voting machine error and make changes to ensure similar mistakes do not occur in future elections. We rate the claim that this instance of Pennsylvania voting machines "flipping votes" is evidence of "election fraud" False.