Philly Board Votes to Reject State Senator's Election Audit
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Source: NBC10 Philadelphia
Philadelphia’s elections board voted Friday to reject a Republican state senator's request for access to its voting machines for a “forensic investigation” into former President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection defeat. The Office of the City Commissioners' unanimous decision will be laid out in a letter telling state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, that Philadelphia “will not participate in your proposed analysis.” Omar Sabir, one of two Democrats on the three-person board, said shortly before the meeting that he thinks it’s time to move on. “It’s time, it’s resources,” he said. “The 2020 election has been proven by many standards that there was no fraud and the election went well."
The vote occurred during a brief meeting at which the three election board members said little about Mastriano's July 7 request that gave them until the end of the month to reply. Mastriano has said he plans to subpoena the three counties through the state Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee, which he chairs, but it's unclear if he has enough support from his fellow Republican senators to follow through with that threat. He's said to expect a meeting of his committee shortly, but so far none has been scheduled.
Senate Republican leaders Jake Corman of Centre County and Kim Ward of Westmoreland County have been conspicuously quiet about Mastriano’s requests to the counties, despite several attempts to seek their comment. Corman is a member of Intergovernmental Operations. After Philadelphia made its decision Friday, the state Democratic Party issued a release claiming Corman is afraid to stand up to Mastriano. “Let’s tell it like it is: Corman is a weakling who would happily sell out Pennsylvania taxpayers to keep his fancy position in a do-nothing legislature,” Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesman Brendan Welch said.
A draft of the Philadelphia board's three-page letter said Mastriano's review would be duplicative of other efforts that have turned up no problems with the vote count but could lead the state to decertify the machines. The Department of State recently told Fulton County its machines could not be used again after it agreed to a similar post-election review Mastriano had pressured the commissioners for. The draft letter also said it would cost the city more than $35 million to replace the equipment, plus related labor and other costs.
Read more: https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philly-commissioners-vote-to-reject-state-senators-election-audit/2904224/
The other two counties told Mastriano to go pound sand earlier this month, so this was obviously expected and they waited until the day before the deadline.
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@DeeleyforPhilly
This morning @PhillyVotes voted to not participate in the State Senator from Adams County's proposed forensic "audit" of the 2020 General and 2021 Primary and furthermore to not grant the State Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee access to the requested items.
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12:36 PM · Jul 30, 2021
ETA - reminder from PA AG Josh Shapiro (D) -
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@JoshShapiroPA
It’s been 268 days since Election Day 2020 — and still, Donald Trump and his allies in Harrisburg are fighting for the Big Lie instead of fighting for Pennsylvanians.
Two legal, bipartisan audits confirmed Joe Biden’s win in Pennsylvania. It’s time to move on.
8:25 AM · Jul 29, 2021
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and they had even originally had a meeting on this scheduled this past Wednesday and they cancelled it and moved it to yesterday (Friday) - https://www.philadelphiavotes.com/en/home/item/1967-sunshine_meeting_rescheduled
and should be in jail.
https://www.witf.org/2021/06/15/mastriano-letter-part-of-u-s-house-investigation-into-jan-6-attack-on-capitol/
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May 22, 2021
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Why wouldn't you think you should enter? Especially when you have #ZZTopPB opening the gates for you.
#Mastriano #SenMastriano #SeditionHunters #SeditionHasConsequences
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@K2theSky
Here are 2 vids synced up. Gives you a better perspective of what the police line they walked though seconds later.
TY @CoryCullington @MasaSpalatin for vid and syncing help!
https://youtu. be/_Ybdqd0xkb0
#Mastriano #SenMastriano #SeditionHunters #IamDougMastriano #IamJeremyOliver
Barricade Push | NE Capitol ft. Doug Mastriano
Sources:— @tyrezk (Instagram)— FreedomNews.tv (YouTube - https://youtu. be/95hp2RrYl-A)#IAmDougMastriano - Doug Mastriano#IAmRebeccaMastriano - Rebecca Mastri...
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12:58 PM · May 23, 2021
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@capitolhunters
#SeditionHunters have wondered for months how the unruly crowd on Jan. 6 could produce synchronized action. Let’s ask an expert: Lt Col. Doug Mastriano (ret.), who taught Strategy at the U.S. Army War College & writes about “hybrid warfare” (link). 1/
https://fpri.org/article/2016/04/putins-conundrum-baltic-region-unconventional-threats-rising-russia/
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8:20 PM · May 27, 2021
I *think* I see what happened here with him - https://www.fpri.org/article/2016/04/putins-conundrum-baltic-region-unconventional-threats-rising-russia/
Kompromat. He was teaching about dealing with Pootie and Pootie apparently got him. And got him bad too.
But Mastriano must've been surprised when Tioga County said no, a little less with York County.
