Thread by @pleasesaveour

In PA the state senators quietly targeted at least 3 small counties, all of which Trump had won handily. Their proposal was to have a private co scrutinize the county’s ballots, for free a move outside the official processes used for election challenges
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washingtonpost.com/politics/penns…

Only one county is known to have agreed to the senators’ request: rural Fulton County, on the Maryland border, where Trump performed better than anywhere else in the state, winning nearly 86 percent of the roughly 8,000 votes cast.

On Dec. 31, in the quiet of the winter holiday, county officials allowed a West Chester, Pa., company called #WakeTSI to spend an afternoon recounting about 1,000 mail-in ballots and taking data from county voting machines.
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According to a county document obtained by The Post, @WakeTSI was “contracted” to a nonprofit group run by Sidney Powell
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penncapital-star.com/government-pol…

Who is @Waketsi ?

Wake TSI, an information tech company located in West Chester, PA has predominantly worked with clients in the health care sector.

We at WAKE TSI help companies use technology to their advantage.
waketsi.com

After Wake TSI was outed for lying about their election experience, they weren't fired, they quit.

azcentral.com/story/news/pol…

This is the extent of their experience. 1000 ballots in a county that Trump won.

Wake TSI submitted a draft report in February to Fulton officials declaring the election had been “well run” and “conducted in a diligent and effective manner,”

washingtonpost.com/politics/penns…

Oh but wait!

Before the final version was posted to the co website, it was revised. The new version incl caveat: “This does not indicate that there were no issues with the election, just that they were not the fault of the County Election Commission or County Election Director”

it read, before flagging potential problems with the county voting machines and other aspects of the election.

On Friday, newly released emails revealed that Trump called the Republican president of the Arizona Senate late last year to thank her for trying to prove fraud in her state.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

Newly released emails sent to and from Arizona state senators reveal that President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani reached out personally to urge GOP officials there to move forward with a partisan recount of the 2020 election
documentcloud.org/documents/2079…

End of December, a legislative committee in the state had rejected a resolution to conduct an immediate audit of election results statewide, and the legislative session expired without consideration of Mastriano’s proposal to appoint electors.
post-gazette.com/news/state/202…

Jean Foschi, #CumberlandCounty Dem comish said that she was confused and dismayed by the request particularly because the state already conducted formal routine election reviews

jeanfoschi.com

“It was like this rogue thing,” she said. “Those election machines are state and federally certified. Why would we let a private company come in and mess around with them?

Gary Eichelberger GOP chair felt “such requests need to be brought to the board openly and not back-doored”

Of course not @SenatorJWard you wanted this to be hush hush.

The commissioners said they informed Ward that if she wanted to request an audit, she should make a formal and public inquiry for them to consider. She never followed up

The residents of Fulton County initially had no idea that their ballots had been scrutinized.

The first indication came during a Jan. 5 meeting of the county commissioners, five days after the audit.

co.fulton.pa.us/files/live-fol…

The following week, commissioners discussed the Wake audit again

This time commissioners took a formal vote to give Wake TSI new access to the county’s absentee ballots. Bunch who was well known locally for commissioning an eight-foot-high mural
co.fulton.pa.us/files/live-fol…

of Trump along the main road voted in favor. So did commission chairman Stuart Ulsh. Shives voted in opposition, insisting “anyone wanting to review election materials should go through the legal process and obtain a subpoena.”

Commissioners now in the hot seat:

Fulton County commissioners Stuart Ulsh, Randy Bunch, and Paula Shives answered questions regarding Wake TSI audit in the county’s 2020 general election at their weekly meeting last Tuesday.

fultoncountynews.com/articles/commi…

See, states are set up so people like Mastriano can't just come in and demand fuqqery with the elections. This is why every single primary and election every single year is what is going to save democracy.

These little guys can save democracy.

#VoteThemOut #PAVotes