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Doug Mastriano pushes for election audit in Pa., many lawmakers push back
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS
by: Dennis Owens Posted: Jul 7, 2021 / 04:54 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 8, 2021 / 06:45 AM EDT

(WHTM) — A State Senator is not ready to let it go. Doug Mastriano officially announced his intention to conduct an election audit despite no evidence of fraud or wrongdoing. He is getting plenty of pushback. The election is long over but still questioned. Senator Doug Mastriano officially sent a letter “to several counties requesting information and materials needed to conduct a forensic investigation of the 2020 General Election and the 2021 Primary.”

Mastriano wants select counties to send him documents by the end of July insisting millions of Pennsylvanians have serious doubts about 2020 adding “Discounting or mocking their concerns is neither an answer nor proper in this constitutional republic.” “You have to accept the results and the results are that Trump lost and Biden won,” Sen. John Kane (D- Chester, Delaware) said.

Senate Democrats question whether Mastriano has the legal authority to conduct such an audit and question the motives of the zealous Trump supporter. “Does he have aspirations of running for a higher office? Maybe. Does he think this will help him? I don’t know that, he must think it must,” Sen. Kane said. Governor Wolf worries about the cost. “If they do this and machines actually get opened they’re gonna be decertified,” Wolf said. That has happened in Arizona, after the controversial audit that inspired Mastriano. Wolf says he also has privacy concerns for voters in York, Tioga. and Philadelphia Counties. “This is gonna open up in those three counties, information on people who may not want that information to be out there,” Wolf said.

Mastriano won’t have the full support of House Republicans. “The House won’t be engaging in any further audits from previous elections,” Rep. Seth Grove (R) Chair of the State Government Committee said. And yes, State Rep. Seth Grove is taking heat for that stance. “There are upset people who demand an election audit,” Rep. Grove said. And now their leader is officially trying, Mastirano saying, “This investigation is not about overturning the results of either election. The goals are to restore faith in the integrity of our system.” Democrats say elections don’t need to be investigated but Mastriano’s actions on January 6 at the US Capitol do.

Pennsylvania Department of State Issues Directive Prohibiting County Election Boards from Cooperating with Senate’s Election Audits
By Jim Hoft Published July 10, 2021 at 7:43am

The Pennsylvania Department of State issued a directive prohibiting county election boards from cooperating with the Senate’s election audit.
According to the directive from the Secretary of State’s office:

Elections officials may not turn over election material to third parties.

Any equipment turned over to a third party cannot be used again in an election.

The state will not reimburse counties for the cost of replacement equipment.

The directive states:





These are the same hard-left politicians who changed the voting rules in Pennsylvania during the pandemic by executive order.

Texas and over 20 states sued Pennsylvania for violating the US Constitution because they made changes to voting rules and procedures through the courts or through executive actions. But these states did not make the changes through the state legislatures as spelled out in the US Constitution. The US Supreme Court threw the case out and allowed this lawlessness of the states.

Pennsylvania has some funny stuff going on.
They’re panicked.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:34 pm I have full confidence that my vote counted. And it's time for Mastriano to shut the hell up. Then people wouldn't be questioning the results of the election, which have already been audited legally twice. Not to mention the 56 (?) lawsuits the State won against this crap.

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:52 pm

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:34 pm I have full confidence that my vote counted. And it's time for Mastriano to shut the hell up. Then people wouldn't be questioning the results of the election, which have already been audited legally twice. Not to mention the 56 (?) lawsuits the State won against this crap.

I continue to ask my mom and dad what is wrong with their people. They come from Wilkes-Barrie, Luzern went 56+% for Zee Furher, and I have family pushing this "election fraud" garbage. It used to be that these people asked me what the hell was wrong with R's in GA, today, they're just like them.

(Reuters) - One of the three Pennsylvania counties asked to provide access to voting machines for a Republican lawmaker's probe of the 2020 election has decided it cannot comply due to a directive from the state's top election official, the county's solicitor told Reuters.

Tioga County's three Republican commissioners met on Tuesday and determined that acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid was within her authority in directing counties not to allow third parties to access their election equipment, according to the solicitor, Chris Gabriel.

The decision poses a potential hurdle for state Senator Doug Mastriano, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump. The legislator announced his "forensic investigation" into the election last week, starting with Tioga, Philadelphia and York counties. He had no immediate comment on Tuesday.

Tioga County is one of the most heavily Republican represented counties in Pennsylvania. This has a long history as Abraham Lincoln reportedly received 78.57% of the county's vote in the 1860 Presidential election. Since Abraham Lincoln the county has voted for the non-Republican presidential candidate only two times.

• backfilled voters - new voters that registered just before the election but clerks hadn't finished the process

• duplicate registrations - people unsure whether they were registered/people with same name

• first time voter - srsly wtf

• inactive voters - again, how is this an anomaly?

• mail-in not in SURE - want to know more before commenting (possibly part of the backfilled group?)

• mail-in counted received late - you lost that battle in court

• sent out-of-state - snow-birds, college students, people on long-term assignments

• purged voters - you fuckers are the one clamoring for voter roll purges