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| Former PA Secretary of State Boockvar hid 2020 election & RLA results (photo credit SpotlightPA) |
JULY 14, 2021: When Pennsylvania stalwart Senator Doug Mastriano announced his intentions to move forward with a full forensic audit of the 2020 election results, petrified Democrats, including its acting Secretary of State (SOS), Veronica DeGraffenreid and its dishonest Attorney General, Josh Shapiro encouraged counties not to participate, threatened legal action, and complained about the cost of the audit.
The argument about cost is a real laugher.
Shapiro spent the last four years and a considerable amount of taxpayer dollars to pursue a misdemeanor conviction in order to boost his political popularity -- while deciding not to lift a finger to investigate a potential child sex trafficking ring.
Interestingly, Shapiro, DeGraffenreid, and other election fraud deniers have baselessly claimed that Pennsylvania ran a free and fair election.
What proof do they have of this?
Absolutely none.
These election fraud deniers simply echo the media's talking points that used the pronouncements by the US Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (DHS/CISA) and former Attorney General William Barr as evidence that there was no widespread fraud.
When did DHS/CISA conduct its review of the election and where is that report?
That report doesn't exist because DHS/CISA has no ability or authority to monitor local elections.
When did Barr dispatch his FBI agents to investigate voter fraud in Pennsylvania and where are those reports?
Shapiro and others in PA, like Senator Jay Costa, also relied on the debunked argument that Trump lost cases related to the vote count and/or voter fraud. However, Shapiro and Costa know that the only cases brought to trial about the Pennsylvania election were based on Constitutional and statutory issues -- they were not about fraudulent ballots, the accuracy of the vote count, and/or voting system errors.
More recently, Shapiro, DeGraffenreid, and other election fraud deniers also argue that the PA election was legitimate because of the results of a pilot Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) that concluded on February 2, 2021 -- long after former PA SOS Kathy Boockvar certified the election results.
Note that not all PA counties participated in the RLA.
If a RLA is supposed to prevent false election results from being certified, shouldn't it be done prior to election certification?
By the way, here is the link to PA's RLA: __________________
That's right folks, the only actual data that the PA government is relying on support its claims of a fair election is not publicly available anywhere on the PA media web-site, the VotesPA web-site, or anywhere on the internet.
This same tactic was used with write-in vote totals for president in the 2020 election.
Pennsylvania had an incredibly low 7,672 write in votes in 2020 -- about 43,000 less than in 2016. And according to official election reporting by Edison Research, only 453 were by absentee ballot. That's 453 votes out of 2.6 million. You cannot find write-in vote totals on the PA SOS election website.
Apparently, the PA SOS felt it was okay to share the 45,000 ballots that underwent the audit with THIRD PARTIES, such as media outlet SpotlightPA and purported non-partisan organization Votebeat.org. -- but not with the citizens of Pennsylvania.
Note that SpotlightPA and Votebeat.org have published columns that referred to allegations of election fraud as conspiracy theories, misinformation, and false claims.
You won't be surprised to learn that they "confirmed" the accuracy of PA's RLA.
For those of you who don't know, a RLA only confirms the winner of the election -- it does not confirm if the vote count was correct, if the votes were legal votes or if the voting machines shifted votes, like they did in Antrim County, Michigan.
Here is what the inventor of the RLA (Philip Stark) said about PA's audit:
“At best, this pilot provided evidence that [President Joe] Biden got more votes than [Donald] Trump in total in the counties that participated in the pilot. That’s different from showing that any equipment worked properly, that the count was accurate, or that Biden won [Pennsylvania].”
Here we are in mid-July 2021 and Pennsylvania has yet to produce any evidence that the election was conducted properly and the election systems worked correctly.
Conversely, there are mountains of statistical evidence to the contrary showing there were major anomalies in Pennsylvania's 2020 presidential election results.
The fact of the matter is that Democrats, including the Hologram in the White House, are pulling out all the stops in order to prevent the public from knowing if the election in PA was legitimate or illegitimate.
In a less than brilliant move, SOS DeGraffenreid threatened to decertify the voting equipment in any counties that participate in the audit.
Great!
Nothing could be better to help ensure the integrity of the vote than to get rid of the outdated, easily hackable voting systems that were used in the nightmarish 2020 election and in the problematic 2021 Pennsylvania primaries.
According to highly respected election experts, ballot marking devices (BMDs) should be replaced with 100% hand-marked paper ballots and optical scanners. Here is an excerpt from a 2020 study by Princeton computer science professor Andrew Appel and UC-Berkeley statistics professor Philip Stark. Stark is one of the creators of the RLA.
A voting system based on BMD-marked ballots is neither contestable nor defensible. A voting system based on hand-marked paper ballots, counted by optical scanners and re-countable (and auditable) by humans, are both contestable and defensible—provided careful procedures are practiced to check administrative processes, physical chain of custody of the ballots, and other physical security measures. Such procedures are called compliance audits.
Senator Doug Mastriano must move forward with the full forensic audit in all 67 PA counties, not just for verifying the 2020 election results, but for ensuring future PA elections are decided on the will of the voters -- not on unreliable voting machines.
Ray Blehar, July 14, 2021, 6:01 PM EDT
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