Pennsylvania Lawmakers Hopeful for Audit After Touring Arizona Election Review

A delegation from Pennsylvania will try to convince legislative leaders in the state to back an audit of the 2020 election after visiting an election review taking place in Arizona’s largest county.

“I’m 100 percent for us having one and I think our leadership is starting to lean that way,” Pennsylvania Sen. Cris Dush told reporters at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, where the Maricopa County audit has been happening since April 23.

Dush was joined by Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano and Pennsylvania Rep. Rob Kauffman.

Dush said he was impressed by how the Arizona audit was being done, including how the firms hired by the Arizona Senate are handling chain of custody issues.

“I’ve never seen anything like it to be quite honest with you, it’s fantastic. I’d like to encourage other state legislatures to get down here and take a look at it as well, especially if you’ve had situations like we experienced in Pennsylvania that really have our citizens in an uproar,” he said.

Mastriano told a pool reporter that he supports Pennsylvania conducting an audit like the Arizona one.

“I’m not about overturning anything. I’m just trying to find out what went right, what went wrong? And how do we have better elections in the future?” he said.

That’s the same reasoning Arizona senators have put forth when explaining why they ordered the Maricopa County audit.

One poll showed about 40 percent of voters in Pennsylvania have concerns about the integrity of the election, the state senator noted, adding: “For the sake of our … constitutional republic, and for the sake of people’s peace of mind, let’s just do it. Let’s pick a few counties and put people’s minds at rest.”

Doug Mastriano, Republican member of the Pennsylvania Senate, speaks at a rally on the National Mall in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

A majority of the Pennsylvania legislature would need to support an audit, Mastriano added. The legislature’s Republican and Democrat leaders did not respond to requests for comment.

The Pennsylvania delegation planned to take the information they learned while in Arizona back to Republican leaders.

Auditors hired by the Arizona Senate, led by Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, are reviewing the nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in the county during the 2020 presidential election. They have also examined tabulators and other machines used during the contest.

Republicans control the Arizona Senate; Democrats have largely opposed the audit, arguing that voter information could be at risk of being compromised.

Observers sent to the coliseum by Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, said they saw a security gate left unattended and a procedure manual marked “confidential” left on a counter. They also learned that copies of voting system data were sent to a laboratory in Montana and claimed quality control practices to ensure data are entered correctly are not in place, “rendering all of the data and findings unreliable.”

The Arizona Senate’s liaison did not respond when asked about the observers’ notes.

Kauffman told The Epoch Times before the tour that he wanted to see firsthand how the audit was being run.

“The Arizona forensic audit is really one of the talks of America and there’s a lot of stuff being thrown around about how it’s being conducted, and I kind of see this as a fact finding to see what’s happening on the ground in Arizona, how it’s happening, and if it’s something that should be done in other states,” he said.

Taxpayer money was not used for the trip, the lawmakers said.

Here in PA the GOP State Committee was not taken over by Trump for the 2020 election. It was left in RINO custody while a Trump person ran the campaign in PA.

The anomalies of the election here also include the facts that Josh Shapiro won as a Democrat for Attorney General along with Joe Biden for President while two Republicans won for State Treasurer and Auditor General.

Pennsylvania has a political system designed to give the other party scraps from the table like we vote for three county commissioners with each party running two candidates.

The other party is guaranteed at least one commissioner in each county.

Philadelphia elects seven of its 17 city council members at-large with each party running five so this allows the other party to get two city council seats in theory.

This election smells to me but I don’t have great faith in the Tom Ridge RINO Republican machine.

I outright suspect them of cutting a deal that enabled this split of D and R wins in statewide races in 2020.

With this so called democratic (in name only) leadership the country has dissolved into a mess. Sadly those who love our constitutional format have been forced to do this;

Have an illuminated holy family statue of Joseph and Mary holding baby Jesus and a sign reading SAVE AMERICA PRAY THE ROSARY facing the state highway which is our access and fronts our property lighted by red, white, and blue led lights.Plus have a lighted flag on pole close by.
When I say my daily rosary I begin it by singing this
“Dear Lady of Fatima I come on bended knee/ to beg your intercession to help save our coun-try / I also include a prayer for the success for the use of Intervectin which is a low cost and available drug which is being used by countries in asia and africa.

With this so called democratic (in name only) leadership the country has dissolved into a mess. Sadly those who love our constitutional format have been forced to do this;

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