Court puts hold on GOP inspection of county voting machines
2 years, 11 months ago

Court puts hold on GOP inspection of county voting machines

Associated Press  

McCONNELLSBURG, Pa. — An inspection of voting machines in a heavily Republican county in Pennsylvania as part of a GOP “investigation” into the 2020 presidential election was moments away from starting Friday until the state Supreme Court put it on hold. The equipment in question — computers, electronic pollbooks, ballot scanners and possibly more — was about to be wheeled in to a special meeting of the Fulton County commissioners just after it started Friday when a lawyer for the county, Tom Breth, said it had to be postponed because the state Supreme Court’s filing office had just notified him the temporary stay was granted. In post-election internal emails released through public records requests, Fulton County’s two Republican commissioners expressed solidarity with Republican senators who later sought to block Pennsylvania’s electoral votes from being cast for Biden. On Dec. 10, Dush sent a letter to Fulton County requesting the “digital data” from the election computers and hardware used in the county’s 2020 election.

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Election in Georgia’s Fulton County to be observed by independent monitor
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Election in Georgia’s Fulton County to be observed by independent monitor

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. After a particularly disastrous primary election in 2020, an independent monitor was brought in to examine the county’s election practices during the general election as part of an agreement with the State Election Board. Fulton County’s elections have been closely watched since then, and the State Election Board voted last …

Pennsylvania Trump allies slapped with $1 million in fines over 2020 voter machine scheme
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Pennsylvania Trump allies slapped with $1 million in fines over 2020 voter machine scheme

Raw Story  

Pennsylvania allies of former President Donald Trump have been hit with $1 million worth of fines for their efforts to improperly allow unauthorized "auditors" to examine voting machines in the state. CNN reports that Fulton County commissioners Stuart Ulsh and Randy Bunch, along with fake Trump elector and Pennsylvania attorney Thomas Carroll, will be jointly responsible for paying off the …

GA board’s right-wing faction demands further investigation of Fulton’s 2020 election
4 months, 2 weeks ago

GA board’s right-wing faction demands further investigation of Fulton’s 2020 election

Raw Story  

A trio of conservative members of the Georgia State Election Board agreed Wednesday to further investigate Fulton County’s 2020 presidential election law violations despite warnings from fellow board members that their decision was illegal. In a 3-2 vote Wednesday, right-wing GOP Georgia election board members Rick Jeffares, Janice Johnston and Janelle King voted to report findings from the Fulton investigation …

Pennsylvania seeks legal costs from county that let outsiders access voting machines to help Trump
10 months ago

Pennsylvania seeks legal costs from county that let outsiders access voting machines to help Trump

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A rural Pennsylvania county and its elected officials may have to pay the state elections agency hundreds of thousands of dollars to reimburse it for legal fees and litigation costs in a three-year battle over allowing outsiders to examine voting machines to help former President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud. Last week, Secretary of State Al …

Pa. county sanctioned over copying 2020 voting machine data
1 year, 8 months ago

Pa. county sanctioned over copying 2020 voting machine data

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania Republican-majority county government where two commissioners secretly allowed a third party to copy voting-machine data last year to help former President Donald Trump overturn his 2020 reelection defeat received contempt sanctions Wednesday from the state’s highest court. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against Fulton County commissioners Stuart Ulsh and Randy Bunch — and their lawyers …

Far-right presentation using misappropriated election software alarms experts
1 year, 8 months ago

Far-right presentation using misappropriated election software alarms experts

LA Times  

A worker returns voting machines to storage at the Fulton County, Ga., election preparation center on Nov. 4, 2020, in Atlanta. On the third day of the Conservative Political Action Conference this month, two men demonstrated experts’ biggest concerns about attempts to access election machines after the 2020 election. Trump supporters also persuaded election officials or law enforcement to give …

County vote moves Pennsylvania closer to certifying election
2 years ago

County vote moves Pennsylvania closer to certifying election

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A suburban Philadelphia county elections board voted Tuesday to certify its November results, a development Pennsylvania officials had said was required before they can issue a statewide certification. Bucks County government spokesman Jim O’Malley said its Board of Elections wrapped up certification, although litigation over recount requests has not ended. “The recount petition litigation is ongoing, but …

State seeks sanctions over access to county voting machines
2 years, 2 months ago

State seeks sanctions over access to county voting machines

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s state elections chief wants legal penalties against two Republican county officials and their lawyer for what she calls in a new court filing their “unprecedented, reckless decision” to give an outside group access to voting machines during pending litigation on that subject. During their long-running dispute with the state, Fulton County GOP Commissioners Stuart Ulsh and …

GOP’s election inquiry: Courts, conspiracies and more costs
2 years, 10 months ago

GOP’s election inquiry: Courts, conspiracies and more costs

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Republican inquiry into Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election inspired by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud has spawned several court cases as it expands into multiple courses of inquiry, grows in cost and shows signs it will drag well into 2022. The Republican senator in charge, Sen. Cris Dush, R-Jefferson, is targeting Fulton County …

Court won’t block entire election ‘investigation’ subpoena
2 years, 11 months ago

Court won’t block entire election ‘investigation’ subpoena

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania court declined Monday to block an entire subpoena to state election officials in what Republican state lawmakers call a “forensic investigation” of 2020’s presidential election, fueled by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats stole the election. The subpoena had requested a 17 categories of records, much of it public, but also wanted information …

New front in GOP election ‘investigation’ draws challenges
3 years ago

New front in GOP election ‘investigation’ draws challenges

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Lawyers for Wolf’s top election official, Veronica DeGraffenreid, asked a court late Friday afternoon to stop a digital data exchange scheduled for next Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania’s sparsely populated Fulton County. Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems warned Fulton County that granting the Senate Republicans’ contractor access to its equipment to get the digital data violates their contract. …

GOP officials decry order to yank vote machines over ‘audit’
3 years, 5 months ago

GOP officials decry order to yank vote machines over ‘audit’

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republican elected officials from a small, rural Pennsylvania county urged state officials Friday to reconsider a decision to require new voting machines because a software firm was allowed to inspect the equipment after the election. “The taxpayers of Fulton County don’t deserve to be on the hook for what appears to be a partisan attack from the …

Pennsylvania decertifies county’s voting system after audit
3 years, 5 months ago

Pennsylvania decertifies county’s voting system after audit

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s top election official has decertified the voting machines of a sparsely populated county that disclosed that it had agreed to requests by local Republican lawmakers and allowed a software firm to inspect the machines as part of an “audit” after the 2020 election. “I have no other choice but to decertify the use of Fulton County’s …

GOP fight over 2020 election audit brews in Pennsylvania
3 years, 6 months ago

GOP fight over 2020 election audit brews in Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A key member of Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is flatly rejecting talk of any sort of audit of the 2020 presidential election, a day after three fellow Republican state lawmakers toured the Arizona Senate GOP’s audit. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, who dismissed their trip to Arizona as an “effort to discredit the integrity of our elections” and …

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