Pennsylvania County Voting Machines Decertified After Audit

Voting machines in one county in Pennsylvania were decertified after being audited.

In a letter to the Fulton County Election Board TuesdayCommonwealth of Pennsylvania Acting Secretary Veronica Degraffenreid said machines used in the November 2020 election were compromised as a result of the audit by software company Wake TSI.

Fulton County officials previously told Degraffenreid that they allowed Wake TSI to access certain components of their electoral system, including their “electoral database, results files and Windows system logs,” the letter said. .

The county also authorized the company to use a “system imaging tool to take full images of the hard drives of these computers” and “full images of two USB drives” used to transfer election results.

Degraffenreid said the machines were compromised as a result of the audit. She said neither the county, nor state officials, nor the Dominion voting systems could “verify that the affected components of the Fulton County rented voting system can be used safely in future elections. “.

The secretary further stated that the audit in question had been carried out in a manner that was “neither transparent nor bipartisan”.

“I have no choice but to withdraw certification from the use of the Fulton County Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5A rented voting system last used in the November 2020 election,” Degraffenreid wrote.

Local officials agreed to hand over the systems in May at the request of local Republican lawmakers seeking an audit similar to the GOP-led audit of the 2020 elections in Maricopa County, Ariz., According to The Associated Press.

Arizona officials began their audit amid alumni President TrumpDonald TrumpOn money: Schumer puts pressure on spending strategy from all sides | GOP hammers HUD chief over slow rental aid | Democrat proposes taxes on commercial spaceflight Night healthcare: Fauci clashes with Paul – again | New York Reaches $ 0.1 Billion Settlement With Opioid Distributors | The Delta variant accounts for 83% of COVID-19 cases in the United States. Defense overnight: Military justice review included in defense bill | Pentagon watchdog to examine ‘nuclear football’ safety | Pentagon carries out first airstrike in Somalia under Biden MORE‘s baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen in this state and others.

TSI alarm clock retreated of the Maricopa County audit in May, and the county approved spending nearly $ 3 million Last week to replace all of its voting equipment. This came after Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) warned the machines had been compromised.