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13 Sep, 15 tweets, 5 min read
NEW: County officials in Pennsylvania have been ordered to begin releasing election “audit” documents within 30 days in response to our records requests.
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Fulton County, Penn., was an early testing ground for the use of sham “audits” to cast doubt on the 2020 election — including the involvement of at least one company that would go on to play a major role in Arizona.
Fulton’s “audits” in Dec. 2020 and Feb. 2021, backed by pro-Trump Sen. Doug Mastriano and others, were conducted by the company Wake TSI — which worked as a contractor to a nonprofit operated by Sidney Powell, who represented Trump in election challenges. azmirror.com/2021/05/24/gro…
A few months later, Wake TSI joined the “audit” team in Arizona led by Cyber Ninjas, where it was in charge of counting ballots cast in Maricopa County.
azmirror.com/blog/wake-tsi-…
In July, Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of state decertified voting machines in Fulton County after Wake TSI conducted the partisan ballot review.
washingtonpost.com/politics/penns…
That month, we sent public records requests to Fulton County to shed light on the review process.

We asked Fulton County’s technology director for communications regarding the county’s inspection of election equipment.
americanoversight.org/document/recor…
We asked the Fulton County elections director and the Board of Commissioners for communications with external entities, including Powell, Mastriano, and figures linked to audit efforts or election challenges in Arizona and across the country.
americanoversight.org/document/recor…
After Fulton County refused to release the records, we filed an administrative appeal. This morning, the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records completely rejected the county’s arguments and ordered the county to release the records to us within 30 days. Image
Mastriano, meanwhile, visited the Arizona “audit” and he and other Trump allies have been aggressively pushing for Pennsylvania to conduct its own large scale ballot review.
In August, Pennsylvania’s Senate Republican leader, Jake Corman, announced that the state would conduct a “forensic investigation” of the 2020 election results.
In announcing the state’s election investigation, Corman said he had spoken with Trump about the issue, saying: “I think he’s comfortable where we’re heading.”
inquirer.com/politics/penns…
If a state Senate Republican leader boasting of Trump’s support for their partisan election “audit” sounds familiar, here’s why:
The first official hearing of that investigation took place last week. The Pennsylvania state Senate held an “election integrity” hearing, and Fulton County commissioner Stuart Ulsh was the only official to testify. reuters.com/world/us/penns…
Nearly a year after the election, supporters of the “big lie” are still hard at work, promoting false claims of election fraud, pushing new restrictions on voting, and undermining faith in democratic elections.
Keep up to date on our ongoing investigation into “audit” efforts in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and beyond:
americanoversight.org/investigation/…

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15 Sep
New: The Arizona Senate has now asked Cyber Ninjas to make “audit” records available to the Senate. This follows yesterday’s order from the Arizona Supreme Court that effectively upholds lower court rulings that the documents are public records.
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“[P]lease immediately make available to the Arizona State Senate all records within your custody or control...with a substantial nexus to the audit,” Arizona Senate President Karen Fann wrote to the Cyber Ninjas firm yesterday.
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15 Sep
This week, we’re doing a deep dive on the Big Lie. On Monday, we discussed the years of voter-fraud activism that laid the foundation. Yesterday, we talked about attempts to stop the certification of the 2020 election. Today, we’re talking about the Jan. 6 attack.
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15 Sep
Michael Gabelman, the lawyer hired to run Wisconsin’s bogus election investigation, has been consulting with Shiva Ayyadurai, an election conspiracy theorist.

Records we obtained show Ayyadurai and Gabelman’s connections to the Arizona “audit.”
jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
On Aug. 1, Christina Bobb from One America News asked Arizona Senate President Karen Fann if she could share her contact information with former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman. Fann replied, “Absolutely of course.”
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14 Sep
BREAKING: The Arizona Supreme Court has denied a petition from the Arizona Senate, leaving in place two lower court rulings that records in the physical custody of “audit” election contractor Cyber Ninjas are public records and must be released. americanoversight.org/arizona-suprem…
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Our statement from @ARevers: “Arizona law does not allow public servants to outsource democracy and shroud their conduct in secrecy.” americanoversight.org/arizona-suprem…
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14 Sep
Each day this week, we’re breaking down an element of the Big Lie. Yesterday, we discussed the years of anti-voting activism that laid the foundation. Today, we’re talking about attempts to stop the certification of the 2020 election.
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13 Sep
This week, we’re doing a deep dive on the Big Lie that the election was “stolen” from Trump because of voter fraud. First, we’re breaking down its roots: the decades-long campaign to hype the threat of voter fraud so as to impose restrictive voting laws.
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I: Building the “Voter Fraud” Narrative: In the last decade and a half, a robust anti-fraud movement has grown out of a conservative backlash, giving rise to what Roll Call in 2012 called a “voter fraud brain trust.”
This included people like former Justice Department officials Hans von Spakovsky, who is now with the Heritage Foundation, and J. Christian Adams, who is head of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative legal group that pushes for aggressive voter-roll purges.
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