Posted on 07/12/2021 8:13:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Pennsylvania Department of State issued a directive on Thursday that prevents third parties from accessing county voting systems.
This directive came as Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano announced on Wednesday that he will investigate the Pennsylvania election system, for both 2020 and 2021 elections. Mastriano, chairperson of the Pennsylvania Senate's Intergovernmental Operations Committee, visited the Maricopa County, Ariz., election audit in June with other Republican state legislators.
"Demands have been made to allow third-party entities not directly involved with the conduct of elections to have access to electronic voting systems, specifically to review and copy the internal electronic, software, mechanical, logic, and related components of such systems," the Pennsylvanian State Department directive stated.
"Such access by third parties undermines chain of custody requirements and strict access limitations necessary to prevent both intentional and inadvertent tampering with electronic voting systems," the directive continues.
"It also jeopardizes the security and integrity of those systems and will negate the ability of electronic voting system vendors to affirmatively state that such systems continue to meet Commonwealth security standards, are validated as not posing security risks, and are able to be certified to perform as designed by the electronic voting system vendor and as certified by both the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and the Department of State."
The order adds that if any county boards of elections "provide physical, electronic, or internal access to third parties seeking to copy and/or conduct an examination of state-certified electronic voting systems, or any components of such systems," that "those pieces of voting equipment will be considered no longer secure or reliable to use in subsequent elections. As a result, the Department of State will withdraw the certification or use authority for those pieces of the county voting system."
If the state withdraws certification or use authority for electronic voing systems, it "will not reimburse any cost of replacement voting equipment."
In a statement responding to the directive, Republican state Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman said, "The Department of State's directive is an attack on the General Assembly’s power to review, investigate, and legislate in matters within its legislative authority, which includes Pennsylvania's election system.
"The Legislature has clear authority – both statutorily and constitutionally – to provide oversight and issue subpoenas. This directive tramples those rights which were specifically put in place to prevent potential abuses and overreach by the Executive Branch."
Don’t you dare try to look into vote fraud, take our word for it, it doesn’t exist......
Second summer home market for state Court judges this year I see. “Judge shopping time, blue tent sale”
Just need to audit Philadelphia and Montgomery counties. That’s it.
Those two counties is where 90% of the ballot fraud took place.
The state is arguing for a concept called “security through obscurity”, which is well known in the computer world as a way of hiding shoddy practices and avoiding accountability.
Unless the voting system was designed to embrace security through obscurity (meaning the only way the voting machines can ever be secure is if nobody but the provider knows how the security works and nobody tries to figure it out), there is no danger to opening up the machines and looking at the code. The only thing that needs to be kept private is the password and encryption keys, which can be changed after the examination, just like a hotel room key.
By the DA’s own logic the election should be invalidated due to Dominion employee access. Clown world stuff the marxists excel at.
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The only reason for that is they have something to hide.
the question is can the Pennsylvania Department of State be over ruled?
They can be underpaid..................
There are ways to guarantee chain of custody during the procedures, and as data is grabbed from the machines, but the order does not qualify itself for following those methods. It is a lie.
The legislature has supreme authority for elections and any third parties they engage operate under their authority as their agents. THIS IS TOTAL BS.
The PA Supreme Court majority was purchased by Soros and has reliably protected the Democrats changing election rules without consent of the legislature.
This will go to the US Supreme Court.
Foot dragging and obstruction.
The legislature will win in the court.
Chain of custody is only important months after an election. It is not important during the election. They protest too much! It should raise everyone's concern about fraud through the use of electronic voting systems.
These bastards need to go down. Every single last one of them.
I am still waiting to hear what the Senate is actually going to do about this.
It should be overridden, but it won’t be. The PA supreme court is majority Democrat.
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