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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GOP effort to inspect Pennsylvania voting machines advances
Updated: 12:10 PM EST Jan 14, 2022
The inspection of voting machines in a heavily Republican county in Pennsylvania appeared ready to go forward Friday in a GOP effort inspired by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about fraud in the 2020 election.A state judge rejected attempts by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration to block the inspection without certain agreements in place.State lawyers had fruitlessly tried to get Fulton County officials to agree to their demands on protocol, including sharing the identity of who will inspect the voting machines and allowing a state-designated voting machine expert to observe and record it.On Dec. 10, state Sen. Cris Dush, R-Jefferson, sent a letter requesting the “digital data” from the election computers and hardware used in the 2020 election by Fulton County.The county is cooperating.A lawyer for Fulton County said Dush wants the Senate Republicans’ contractor to determine whether the equipment used there was the same equipment certified by Pennsylvania for use in 2020’s election.Dush this year visited the Republicans’ partisan and widely criticized election review in Arizona and said he wanted to bring that model to Pennsylvania.A Republican-controlled Senate committee also has sent a subpoena to state election officials for a wide range of election-related records.
The inspection of voting machines in a heavily Republican county in Pennsylvania appeared ready to go forward Friday in a GOP effort inspired by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about fraud in the 2020 election.
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A state judge rejected attempts by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration to block the inspection without certain agreements in place.
State lawyers had fruitlessly tried to get Fulton County officials to agree to their demands on protocol, including sharing the identity of who will inspect the voting machines and allowing a state-designated voting machine expert to observe and record it.
On Dec. 10, state Sen. Cris Dush, R-Jefferson, sent a letter requesting the “digital data” from the election computers and hardware used in the 2020 election by Fulton County.
The county is cooperating.
A lawyer for Fulton County said Dush wants the Senate Republicans’ contractor to determine whether the equipment used there was the same equipment certified by Pennsylvania for use in 2020’s election.
Dush this year visited the Republicans’ partisan and widely criticized election review in Arizona and said he wanted to bring that model to Pennsylvania.
A Republican-controlled Senate committee also has sent a subpoena to state election officials for a wide range of election-related records.
