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Republican lawmakers aiming to expand what they call a “forensic investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 election into the inspection of voting machines must wait until next month.
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Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is trying to prevent Republican lawmakers propelled by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about election fraud from expanding their “investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 election to inspecting voting machines.
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Partisan election reviews of the 2020 presidential election are underway in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin while Republican lawmakers elsewhere continue their calls to bring them to their states. They argue they are needed to restore public confidence in elections, but experts say the reviews themselves undermine faith in elections.
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Multiple federal investigations as well as court rulings and state-mandated audits of ballots from every Pennsylvania county have turned up no evidence of election problems that were out of the ordinary. The Department of State has said the last several election cycles ran smoothly. Even so, Pa. Senate Republicans are paying over a quarter million dollars in taxpayer money to an Iowa-based company, Envoy Sage LLC, to investigate those elections.
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Many questions remain unanswered as to what Republicans in Pennsylvania’s Senate can accomplish from what they call a “forensic investigation” into last year’s presidential election now that they have hired a contractor that has not pointed to any experience in elections.
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The Republicans have hired Envoy Sage, which says it has exposed “fraud among non-governmental organizations.” Little else is known about the group.
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Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate will pay up to $270,000 over the next six months to have a consulting firm examine the 2020 election with an eye toward developing changes to state election law.
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Experts talked about the dangers of rampant misinformation concerning the 2020 election, a problem attendees watched in real time as the forum’s Zoom chat was peppered with false allegations of fraud in last year’s presidential election.
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Under the measure, the Department of State and individual counties would have to refuse any “private donations” that would be used for “operating elections, employing staff or selecting and equipping a polling place or for use in voter education or outreach.”
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The Democratic candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, is reporting just over $10 million on hand in his campaign account ahead of next year’s election.