Source; https://www.westernjournal.com/controversial-pennsylvania-voting-machines-just-got-decertified/
Election workers count ballots at the Philadelphia Convention Center on Nov. 6, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Chris McGrath / Getty Images)
Pennsylvania election officials have decertified voting machines in Fulton County after Republican lawmakers had them audited following the state’s controversial handling of the 2020 election.
Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid said in a Tuesday letter that after a software company called Wake TSI looked over the Dominion machines at the request of government officials concerned with election integrity, they would have to be retired.
The company was contracted following a request from Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano and from Fulton County election officials, The Hill reported.
Wake TSI reportedly examined the machines, looking at each one’s “election database, results files, and Windows system logs.”
Fulton County also had Wake TSI use a “system imaging tool to take complete hard drive images of these computers” and to also “complete images of two USB thumb drives” which were used to transfer election results.
Degraffenreid complained that the inspection of the machines was “not transparent or bipartisan.”
The acting secretary of state also said the machines were compromised, as Dominion Voting Systems and election officials could not “verify that the impacted components of Fulton County’s leased voting system are safe to use in future elections.”
“I have no other choice but to decertify the use of Fulton County’s leased Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5A voting system last used in the November 2020 election,” she stated.
For future elections, Fulton County will lease or buy new machines, The Hill reported.
Wake TSI is the same company contracted for the audit of the Maricopa County, Arizona, 2020 election results.
President Donald Trump and some state officials have said Pennsylvania was the site of massive voter fraud before, during and after the November election.
Mastriano has sought to have other counties audit their machines, but counties have turned that request down fearing their machines would be de-certified by the state, as those in Fulton County have been, WCAU-TV reported.
After three Pennsylvania lawmakers toured the Arizona audit, Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf called it an “effort to discredit the integrity of our elections” as well as “an insult to our county election workers and to Pennsylvania voters,” the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
Trump has called for a full forensic audit in the commonwealth, which is something not likely to happen.
Mastriano last month appeared willing to compromise.
“I’m a bit disconcerted that someone has come out on our side, not even leaving open the idea of an audit,” Mastriano stated in June, the Post-Gazette reported. “I don’t know how we can get around it, but the people overwhelmingly want an audit.”
“I think just a county or two would do. My preference would be a Democrat and a Republican county and let the chips fall where they may,” Mastriano said.
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Biden stole it. EVERYONE KNOWS!!!
Do not be confused. There is a Fulton County in both Georgia AND Pennsylvania. Fulton County is a very rural county on PA’s south-central border. It is very picturesque and mountainous. It my county's eastern neighbor. Here is a concise report.
"The Pennsylvania Department of State decertified Fulton County’s voting machines on Wednesday after officials there participated in a third-party audit.
The voluntary probe came at the request of Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Gettysburg, who’s currently spearheading a larger effort to audit machines in Tioga, York and Philadelphia counties amid his ongoing campaign to ferret out fraudulent activity during the past two elections.
Mastriano said in a news release last week that Degraffenreid lacked the authority to decertify counties’ machines. He said the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee, of which he is chairman, “will press forward in the pursuit of a forensic investigation.” “What we are seeing is a convergence of scare tactics from Wolf Administration and the Attorney General to intimidate county officials and obstruct a forensic investigation,” he said. “Governor Wolf and AG Shapiro are standing in the way of the constitutional authority of the General Assembly,” he added. “For people who once lectured the state about transparency and accountability, we all ask, what do they have to hide?”
We have a Republican controlled PA Senate which comes with RINO's from eastern PA. But Sen. Mastriano is surrounded by good Republicans and a vociferous and very angry conservative citizenry. Let's Roll!!
If the machines are going out because it can show the election was stolen then remove the electro votes from the selected fake president
The NAZI's had nothing on the Democrat party. They got away with massive voter fraud, These people are not Americans.
Yes. And then make this rural county purchase new machines at a very high cost. The same holds for all counties. Rural counties are repblican. They cannot afford new machines funded by themselves. Populated counties are heavily Democrat and supportive RINOs. Talk about about bullying! I am hoping conservative counties share money in purchasing voting machines. Read my post above.
Do not know how any intelligent person can look at everything going on and not agree that the democrats are hiding something. It could be worst that voter fraud. It is no telling what it could be. They are just a bunch of liars and crooks and power seekers. Ruthless
This election was stolen and even the Democratic Party know it so let us take the House and Senate and then get this selected president out of the house the people elected to be its tenants
The demoncrats will stop at nothing to get their way.
"The acting secretary of state also said the machines were compromised, as Dominion Voting Systems and election officials could not “verify that the impacted components of Fulton County’s leased voting system are safe to use in future elections.”
“I have no other choice but to decertify the use of Fulton County’s leased Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5A voting system last used in the November 2020 election,” she stated.
For future elections, Fulton County will lease or buy new machines, The Hill reported."
Then hand count ballots in the future, and zero out crooked computer fraud problems. It is not like computer voting machines cannot be done without.
You understand in part, but I believe mislead in some ways. Please read my post above, Skeptical. I live 15 miles from Fulton County, PA.
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