YOU SPOKE WITH SOME TOP STATE DEMOCRATS ABOUT THEIR LEGAL ACTION. >> DEMOCRATS FILED THEIR INITIAL OBJECTION LATE LAST WEEK. THE NEW DEVELOPMENT WE ARE TOLD THEY EXPECT TO AS FORMALLY FOR AN INJUNCTION THIS WEEK. IF YOU VOTED FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE OF 2020, THIS AFFECTS YOU AND YOUR PERSONAL DATA. REPUBLICAN STATE SENATORS ARE SUBPOENAING PERSONAL DATA OF NEARLY 7 MILLION PENNSYLVANIANS WHO VOTED LAST FALL. THERE ELECTION AUDIT TARGETS OR NAME, ADDRESS, MEANS OF VOTING, YOUR DRIVER’S LICENSE NUMBER AND THE LAST FOUR DIGITS OF YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. THE MINORITY SENATE LEADER SAYS DEMOCRATS ARE FIGHTING THAT IN COURT. >> WE BELIEVE THEY DID NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ASK FOR THAT DATA. WE DO NOT BELIEVE THE DATA SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THEM. THEY’RE TRYING TO PREVENT THE RELEASE OF INFORMATION OF 7 MILLION PENNSYLVANIANS. >> REPUBLICAN MAJORITY LEADER CAM WARD SAYS POLLS SHOW SOME PEOPLE THINK THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IN THE ELECTIO N.>> TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THA IF THERE IS NOT ANYTHING WRONG, THATS I GREAT AND EVERYBODY CAN FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT. I THINK THE ONLY WAY FOR PEOPLE TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT IS WHEN THEY KNOW FOR SURE. >> THIS ISN A ABSURD PIECE OF PERFORMANCE ART SO THEY CAN CATER TO THE EXTREME ELEMENTS WITHIN THEIR PARTY. >> LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR JOHN FETTERMAN SAYS DEMOCRATS ARE RISKING — SSAY REPUBLICANS ARE RISKING AN IDENTITY THEFT CATASTROPHE. >> IT IS BEING ASSEMBLED AND IT COULD BE DUPLICATED AND DROPPED ON THE DARK WEB OR YOU COULD HAVE A ROGUE EMPLOYEE THAT COULD JUST RELEASE IT OR CITEO TTHE HIGHEST BIDDER. >> MUCH OF THE DATA IS PUBLIC RECORD BUT NOT ALL. >> EXCEPT FOR THE LAST FOUR DIGITS OF YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY COME WHICH SCARES PEOPLE AND IS SCARY. AND THE LICENSE . SO I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THOSE THINGS. >> WE ARE ASKING THE COURT TO SAY THIS INFORMATION IS NOT PERMITTED TO BE RELEASED TO NOT ONLY THE SENATORS BUT ALSO TO THE THIRD-PARTY AUDIT WHOEVER THAT IS GOING TO BE. THAT THIRD PARTY VENDOR. >> HE ALSO BELIEVES IT IS POSSIBLE THE STATE ATTORYNE GENERAL’S OFFICE WILL STEP UP AND SEEK TO BLOCK THOSE SUBPOENAS.
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Court asked to require accredited lab in GOP ‘investigation’
Updated: 12:14 PM EST Jan 4, 2022
Dominion Voting Systems has asked a court to restrict any inspection of its voting machines as part of what Republican lawmakers call a “forensic investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 election to a laboratory that has specific credentials.The Denver-based voting-system manufacturer filed paperwork in court Monday evening as Republican lawmakers move to inspect Dominion’s machines and software in southern Pennsylvania’s sparsely populated Fulton County using an unaccredited contractor that has no election experience.In its court papers, Dominion requested an order requiring that any inspection be conducted by a federally accredited voting system test lab or a national laboratory used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.Fulton county heavily backed former President Donald Trump, whose baseless claims about election fraud in 2020’s presidential election have propelled various Republican endeavors to search for fraud in states Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.A Commonwealth Court judge has separately given state and county officials until Jan. 10 to work out an agreed-upon set of rules for an inspection.A lawyer representing Fulton County has said the Republican senator in charge of the “forensic investigation” wants to determine if the county’s voting system was the same equipment as was certified by the state of Pennsylvania for use in 2020’s election.Fulton County is cooperating.Dominion’s voting equipment has been at the center of conspiracy theories about the presidential election and it has filed defamation lawsuits against right-wing broadcasters and Trump allies.
Dominion Voting Systems has asked a court to restrict any inspection of its voting machines as part of what Republican lawmakers call a “forensic investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 election to a laboratory that has specific credentials.
The Denver-based voting-system manufacturer filed paperwork in court Monday evening as Republican lawmakers move to inspect Dominion’s machines and software in southern Pennsylvania’s sparsely populated Fulton County using an unaccredited contractor that has no election experience.
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In its court papers, Dominion requested an order requiring that any inspection be conducted by a federally accredited voting system test lab or a national laboratory used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Fulton county heavily backed former President Donald Trump, whose baseless claims about election fraud in 2020’s presidential election have propelled various Republican endeavors to search for fraud in states Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
A Commonwealth Court judge has separately given state and county officials until Jan. 10 to work out an agreed-upon set of rules for an inspection.
A lawyer representing Fulton County has said the Republican senator in charge of the “forensic investigation” wants to determine if the county’s voting system was the same equipment as was certified by the state of Pennsylvania for use in 2020’s election.
Fulton County is cooperating.
Dominion’s voting equipment has been at the center of conspiracy theories about the presidential election and it has filed defamation lawsuits against right-wing broadcasters and Trump allies.
