by Martin Walsh at Conservative Brief
Pennsylvania Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano is preparing to kick things up a notch.
After visiting the election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona, Mastriano took the first steps toward an audit in his own state.
Mastriano requested ballots and access to voting machines in three Pennsylvania counties: Tioga, York, and Philadelphia.
These counties had until July 31 to comply and they refused.
Now, Mastriano says “It’s on.”
After Mastriano made his requests in July, Pennsylvania’s acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid warned that she would decertify any election equipment turned over to a third party.
Pennsylvania officials decertified voting machines in Fulton County after they were subjected to an audit following the 2020 presidential election.
In a letter to the Fulton County Board of Elections, Degraffenreid said that the Dominion voting machines would be decertified after being audited by software company Wake TSI.
The company was contracted following a request from Republican State Sen. Doug Mastriano and from Fulton County election officials, The Hill reported.
Fulton County officials allowed Wake TSI to access certain components of their election system, including their “election database, results files, and Windows system logs.”
The county also allowed the company to use a “system imaging tool to take complete hard drive images of these computers” and “complete images of two USB thumb drives” used to transfer election results.
Degraffenreid said she “had no choice” but to decertify the machines because she claims the Republican-led audit was “not transparent or bipartisan.”
The audit was ordered by Mastriano, who announced that he was going to launch a “forensic investigation of the 2020 General Election and 2021 Primary.”
In his announcement, Mastriano detailed his decision and why it is so important:…
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