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Re: PA Election Audit Review: Pennsylvania Republicans' Dead-End Insanity

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 11:10 am
by AndyinPA
I really hope they can put an end to this crap. The republicons are asking for voters' names, addresses, drivers' license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers.

:mad: :mad: :mad:

Re: PA Election Audit Review: Pennsylvania Republicans' Dead-End Insanity

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:45 pm
by Slim Cognito
AndyinPA wrote: Fri Sep 24, 2021 11:10 am I really hope they can put an end to this crap. The republicons are asking for voters' names, addresses, drivers' license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers.

:mad: :mad: :mad:
Ya know, maybe if somebody had some concrete evidence something was amiss*, like, I don't know, bamboo ballots, I could almost see it but with zero evidence anything went wrong, I can't fathom this being allowed just to please the OSG. What will he ask for next? Blood oaths?

We shall see.

*and they've got zilch.

Re: PA Election Audit Review: Pennsylvania Republicans' Dead-End Insanity

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:34 am
by Slim Cognito


Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
PA GOP Senate candidate Everett Stern announces he was approached earlier this year by representatives of Michael Flynn’s ‘Patriot Caucus’ to “gather intelligence” on Senators, Judges and Congressman in order to extort them to support audits. He says he gave the evidence to Feds.

Stern said that Michael Flynn was running the operation in multiple states, and it was being financed by Texas billionaire Al Hartman. He said he was initially given two main targets - Sen Pat Toomey and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick.
I don't know if it's nerves, but the speaker stumbles and I had a difficult time understanding him, other than he realized "gathering intelligence" actually meant "extortion."

Re: PA Election Audit Review: Pennsylvania Republicans' Dead-End Insanity

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 11:07 am
by p0rtia
Perhaps the Army decided too soon that it didn't want snatch Flynn back up and prosecute him.

Re: PA Election Audit Review: Pennsylvania Republicans' Dead-End Insanity

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 11:15 am
by filly
Sounds like conspiracy to commit extortion. I think used to be against the law. DOJ? Where are you?

Re: PA Election Audit Review: Pennsylvania Republicans' Dead-End Insanity

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:36 am
by Luke
Joe Hoft and the Gateway House of Boys are ANGRY! And the marks are let down once again. :( But ANY DAY NOW!
BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Steps In and Delays Fulton County, Pennsylvania 2020 Election Investigation
By Joe Hoft Published January 14, 2022 at 2:11pm

The Democrat Pennsylvania Secretary of State waited until the last minute to ask the state’s Supreme Court to step in and stop the election review of the 2020 results in Fulton, County. Today they did. The Penn-Star Capital reports:
A third-party inspection of Fulton County voting machines, scheduled for Friday as part of the Senate’s taxpayer-funded election investigation, was derailed — following a last-minute Pennsylvania Supreme Court order granting a request from the Wolf administration challenging the review. Envoy Sage, the contractor hired by the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee to conduct the investigation, was poised to inspect the county’s machines Friday afternoon when the court issued a stay, putting the process on hold until the Supreme Court reaches a final decision.

The order came after a state judge rejected attempts by Dominion Voting Machines, Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, and state elections officials to block the probe unless an accredited inspector carried it out. The Wolf administration also wants Fulton County and Envoy Sage to agree to a step-by-step protocol and disclose who will conduct the review. Legislative Democrats and Attorney General Josh Shapiro have also expressed security concerns with Envoy Sage in court challenges to a subpoena issued as part of the Senate investigation that asks for voters’ driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. “Dominion welcomes such reviews by accredited elections entities,” the company said in a statement to the Capital-Star. “We have made this expressly clear to county officials many times, including in legal filings. Unfortunately, this inspection does not comply with existing federal or state requirements.”

Dominion compared the review in Pennsylvania to the controversial, GOP-backed election probe carried out by a firm with no experience auditing elections in Maricopa County, Ariz., last year. The contractor selected to “assess” Dominion machines “has never gone through any Voting System Test Lab accreditation process to ensure its qualifications and credibility,” Dominion said in a statement.
Of course, Dominion doesn’t want any professionals near their machines. They use the excuse that they want certain professionals to look into their machines, but to date, the inspections by the Dominion preferred have found nothing because their investigations and audits are worthless. We reported a week ago how the Dominion machines shouldn’t have been used in the Pennsylvania election in 2020. This action by Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State and Dominion is not surprising. The court in PA is liberal. So the court’s actions aren’t surprising either. We’ll see what comes next. Expect the delays to continue.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/0 ... stigation/

Story from Pennsylvania Capital-Star (of course, the Gateway House of Boys gets the newspaper's name wrong):
ELECTION 2020
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Pa. Supreme Court delays Fulton County election review
BY: MARLEY PARISH - JANUARY 14, 2022 12:37 PM (*This story was updated at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, 1/14/22, to include additional reporting.)

A third-party inspection of Fulton County voting machines, scheduled for Friday as part of the Senate’s taxpayer-funded election investigation, was derailed — following a last-minute Pennsylvania Supreme Court order granting a request from the Wolf administration challenging the review. Envoy Sage, the contractor hired by the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee to conduct the investigation, was poised to inspect the county’s machines Friday afternoon when the court issued a stay, putting the process on hold until the Supreme Court reaches a final decision.

The order came after a state judge rejected attempts by Dominion Voting Machines, Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, and state elections officials to block the probe unless an accredited inspector carried it out. The Wolf administration also wants Fulton County and Envoy Sage to agree to a step-by-step protocol and disclose who will conduct the review. Legislative Democrats and Attorney General Josh Shapiro have also expressed security concerns with Envoy Sage in court challenges to a subpoena issued as part of the Senate investigation that asks for voters’ driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. “Dominion welcomes such reviews by accredited elections entities,” the company said in a statement to the Capital-Star. “We have made this expressly clear to county officials many times, including in legal filings. Unfortunately, this inspection does not comply with existing federal or state requirements.”

Dominion compared the review in Pennsylvania to the controversial, GOP-backed election probe carried out by a firm with no experience auditing elections in Maricopa County, Ariz., last year. The contractor selected to “assess” Dominion machines “has never gone through any Voting System Test Lab accreditation process to ensure its qualifications and credibility,” Dominion said in a statement. Now-President Joe Biden won the election in the commonwealth by 80,555 votes. Efforts to review the 2020 election come after a months-long campaign by former President Donald Trump, who made unsubstantiated claims that voter fraud and misconduct resulted in his loss. Legal challenges to the results failed in court, and two post-election audits carried out in Pennsylvania after the presidential election found no evidence of fraud.

Fulton County voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2020, and it’s unclear why its machines are part of the Senate’s investigation. Sen. Cris Dush, R-Jefferson, who chairs the 11-member panel overseeing the probe, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Republican County Commissioner Stuart Ulsh did not respond to a request for comment. Before the first hearing as part of the investigation, Dush said the review will not reinstate Trump to office. It’s also not a recount, Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, R-Centre, who has argued there are “irregularities” worth examining, said in August. Both lawmakers, who signed a letter asking Congress to delay certification of Pennsylvania’s Electoral College results after the 2020 election, have said the review aims to identify strengths and weaknesses in the state’s voting laws, as well as make recommendations for improvements.

Dush also visited Arizona last summer to tour the election review facility with Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rob Kauffman, R-Franklin. A spokesperson for the Department of State, which has election oversight, declined to comment on Friday’s meeting and referred the Capital-Star to legal challenges brought by the Wolf administration opposing the review. Former acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid decertified Fulton County’s voting machines last July for complying with an unauthorized election review, facilitated by Mastriano and carried out by a West Chester-based technology company with no election-related experience.
https://www.penncapital-star.com/electi ... equipment/