Slight slide here...
President Trump was pointing at election fraud before he even won the Nomination.
When he was elected, he questioned the popular vote claiming ineligibles voted.
Shortly after he was elected, he established the Voter Fraud Commission(Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity)
The Commission got stymied every way they turned. States refused to give the Feds voter data. Commission
didn’t last a year...duties were transferred to, I think, DHS and they became the bermuda triangle.
I think Pres. Trump gave up on it too soon.
Some of us (not sure if it was the Qanon thread or the Trump Family Train thread) made the case that since the FEDS financed the HAVA of 2002 (Help America Vote Act of 2002), the commission had a right to view the states’ data.
The FEDS basically gave the states the money to update their voter rolls\technology\databases\processes etc...
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title52/subtitle2/chapter209&edition=prelim
I made a pitch via the WH website and I think we also made a pitch to Hannity (someone has\had a connection to him from the FR old days) that the Feds should sue for access.
Crickets chirping.
Could we have nipped all this in the bud if we kept pounding?
who knows...
The Feds via HAVA basically paid the states to upgrade their voting tech to electronic voting machines. Like much legislation HAVA provided a free cash flow bonanza to Diebold, in the first two to three years after HAVA was implemented. Plus the arrogance, which many large corps. exhibit, made Diebold think that since they had “experience” in the election industry through their minority interest in a Brazilian voting machine provider coupled with their ATM technology that it was an “ideal” fit.
Needless to say around 2006 it became a PR albatross for the company and was no longer the free cash flow pipeline it had been in earlier years, so they put it up for sale. It wasn’t until 2009 that Diebold sold the division to a current election player, ES&S.
The Fed dictated the certification process of voting equipment for states that used HAVA to upgrade their systems, so allowing taxpayers access, as you laid out, should follow. But until Trump in 2020 election integrity was not high on the DS swamp nor citizens radar so prior election integrity inquiries were probably given the customary thanks you we will look into circular file response.