{"id":599164,"date":"2021-07-21T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=599164"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:50:20","slug":"voting-machines-in-pennsylvania-county-decertified-due-to-2020-election-audit-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voting-machines-in-pennsylvania-county-decertified-due-to-2020-election-audit-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Machines In Pennsylvania County Decertified Due To 2020 Election Audit Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvoting-machines-in-pennsylvania-county-decertified-due-to-2020-election-audit-effort%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=599164&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1229446433-scaled-e1626889972103.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A number of voting machines in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, have been decertified by the state.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County, a deep-red Republican county located in southern Pennsylvania, previously disclosed they had allowed a software firm to inspect <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/maricopa-county-arizona-replacing-dominion-voting-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voting machines<\/a> at the behest of local Republican lawmakers as part of a 2020 election \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/21\/voting-machines-auditors-grave-security-concerns-arizona-election-audit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">audit<\/a>,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-joe-biden-business-government-and-politics-pennsylvania-93c5f0b03167971d4dc5919e68949c51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> (AP). Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid announced Wednesday that the voting machines the software firm accessed are decertified from further use, The AP reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.4736842105263\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PA\u2019s top election officials have decertified Fulton County\u2019s voting machines after they were compromised in a post-election inspection done by a third party company called Wake TSI earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lucy Perkins (@lucyeperk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucyeperk\/status\/1417904230942318596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Degraffenreid claimed that the inspection, as part of the 2020 audit, violated state law in a Wednesday letter to Fulton County officials. She claimed the software firm, a West Chester-based company called Wake TSI, had \u201cno knowledge or expertise in election technology,\u201d according to The AP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no other choice but to decertify the use of Fulton County\u2019s leased Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5A voting system last used in the November 2020 election,\u201d Degraffenreid reportedly wrote in the letter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/03\/voting-machines-down-spalding-county-georgia-donald-trump-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: All Voting Machines Go Down In 1 Georgia County)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The move will force Fulton County to either buy new voting machines to replace the ones evaluated by Wake TSI or lease new ones as it did in the May primaries, The AP noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.1834862385321\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In other Fulton County (PA) voting machine election news\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Another \u201caudit\u201d by untrained third party group leads to decertification of equipment.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GqzmHnX79o\">https:\/\/t.co\/GqzmHnX79o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stphnfwlr\/status\/1417894121679765511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of the audit performed by Wake TSI, the software company took backups of system data on computers used to count ballots <span class=\"s1\">\u2014 <\/span>among other things <span class=\"s1\">\u2014 <\/span>under the supervision of the county\u2019s information technology director, according to a letter Fulton County officials wrote to Degraffenreid in May, The AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2020 presidential election, less than 8,000 people voted in the county, with voters breaking for former President Donald Trump by almost seven-to-one over President Joe Biden, the AP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of voting machines in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, have been decertified by the state.Fulton County, a deep-red Republican county located in southern Pennsylvania, previously disclosed they had allowed a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}