Posted on 08/18/2021 9:18:02 AM PDT by jdirt
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/17/election-officials-call-for-audit-guidelines-after-trump-fueled-surge-505562
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Everyone knows there was massive criminal fraud. They are just too cowed to say so.
So very afraid.
But of what?
There was no fraud here so why all the fear? Everything in this last election was the most secure we have ever seen.
Hmmm, seems odd to me.
Because the Big Steal was completely BIPARTISAN, Republicans are fighting just as hard as Democrats to stop any real investigations that might expose their complicity.
Post-Trump, it will be very important for the white-washing rules to be established in advance.
I think it’s time for the workers and the tax payers to stage a protest.
We all need to take off for one week and protest at our state capitals or washington DC.
They need to hear us, abide by the law and we need to see real audits to prove the demented loser in the White house is legitimate. Until they do that, stop working and paying taxes just so they can steal our money and hand it out to criminals and lazy slobs who don’t work.
What is going on in this country is ridiculous.
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat who was part of a bipartisan group of 8 secretaries who helped draft the guidelines, told POLITICO after the vote that they had been working in secret for months to come to an agreement, comparing the pact the secretaries took to not speak about their work until it was completed to the movie “Fight Club.”
The National Association of Secretaries of State approved a series of recommendations for audits aimed at combating Arizona-style, slapdash reviews of the 2020 election and future races.
DES MOINES, Iowa — The nation’s top election officials are calling for more stringent guidelines for post-election audits, as supporters of former President Donald Trump continue to relitigate his defeat in 2020.
At the summer meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State, secretaries voted nearly unanimously on Monday to approve a series of recommendations for post-election audits on everything from a timeline, to chain of custody of election materials. The guidelines were shared first with POLITICO.
During the vote, only two Republican secretaries present didn’t back it: West Virginia Secretary Mac Warner, who voted against it, and Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, who abstained.
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat who was part of a bipartisan group of 8 secretaries who helped draft the guidelines, told POLITICO after the vote that they had been working in secret for months to come to an agreement, comparing the pact the secretaries took to not speak about their work until it was completed to the movie “Fight Club.”
The vote came at the tail end of the group’s four-day conference, the first time the organization has gathered in person since before the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
What do the secretaries call for? The election officials lay out six recommendations for any post-election audit, many of which are not being followed by the review boosted by Trump supporters in Arizona and elsewhere.
The secretaries call on audits to have a definitive timeframe, which is “ideally” laid out in state law, and for state and local election officials to “be an integral part of the post-election audit process.”
The guidelines also call for auditors to be wary of third-party involvement, saying outside participants should be determined prior to the election and work closely with election officials. The guidelines also recommend that voting machines should be audited by a “federally or a state accredited test lab,” which comes after jurisdictions in Arizona and Pennsylvania saw their election machines decertified after a third party handled them.
The Justice Department also issued guidance late last month saying some post-election audits could run afoul of federal law. “Election audits are exceedingly rare. But the Department is concerned that some jurisdictions conducting them may be using, or proposing to use, procedures that risk violating the Civil Rights Act,” the DOJ memo read.
Why now? The secretaries’ guidelines comes as Trump and his supporters push for even more post-election reviews, after he narrowly lost several states to now-President Joe Biden. Trump continues to lie about the election, claiming there was widespread fraud.
The most notable post-election review has been in Arizona, where the Republican-led state Senate has targeted Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county that Biden narrowly carried en route to flipping the state.
That review, which Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Republican officials in Maricopa have vociferously opposed, has stretched on for months longer than initially expected. Supporters call it an “audit,” a label almost universally rejected by election officials and experts because the Arizona effort has poorly defined processes and has embraced some conspiracies.
Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann tweeted on Monday that a draft report is being prepared, and a spokesperson for the review told KNXV that a draft report could be delivered to the state Senate as soon as Friday.
Trump has pushed his supporters to export the Maricopa review to other states. Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have tried to launch their own, but so far neither have made similar sort of progress as in Arizona.
SoS’s do not rule over state legislators, so who cares what they have to say. Continue on with your audits legislators. Get to the truth in spite of their BS attempt to silence and strip you of your real authority.
Quit abusing the activism sidebar.
Sorry I didn’t know I did something wrong
Very similar to a press release put out by John Dillinger, President of the American Association of Bank Robbers.
“We are very committed to maintaining bank security and financial integrity and have identified qualified auditors to ensure our guidelines are followed. The Chief auditors will be the team of Bonnie and her close associate Clyde along with the esteemed expert Baby Face Nelson. The financial audits will be done by Arthur Anderson & Co., Moody’s Bond Rating division, and other professionals formerly with the Madoff family investment organization. We need to restore confidence in the banking system. Thank you.”
Election officials call for audit guidelines after Trump-fueled surge
The National Association of Secretaries of State approved a series of recommendations for audits aimed at combating Arizona-style, slapdash reviews of the 2020 election and future races.
By ZACH MONTELLARO
08/17/2021 12:30 PM EDT
DES MOINES, Iowa — The nation’s top election officials are calling for more stringent guidelines for post-election audits, as supporters of former President Donald Trump continue to relitigate his defeat in 2020.
At the summer meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State, secretaries voted nearly unanimously on Monday to approve a series of recommendations for post-election audits on everything from a timeline, to chain of custody of election materials. The guidelines were shared first with POLITICO.
During the vote, only two Republican secretaries present didn’t back it: West Virginia Secretary Mac Warner, who voted against it, and Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, who abstained.
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat who was part of a bipartisan group of 8 secretaries who helped draft the guidelines, told POLITICO after the vote that they had been working in secret for months to come to an agreement, comparing the pact the secretaries took to not speak about their work until it was completed to the movie “Fight Club.”
The vote came at the tail end of the group’s four-day conference, the first time the organization has gathered in person since before the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
What do the secretaries call for? The election officials lay out six recommendations for any post-election audit, many of which are not being followed by the review boosted by Trump supporters in Arizona and elsewhere.
The secretaries call on audits to have a definitive timeframe, which is “ideally” laid out in state law, and for state and local election officials to “be an integral part of the post-election audit process.”
The guidelines also call for auditors to be wary of third-party involvement, saying outside participants should be determined prior to the election and work closely with election officials. The guidelines also recommend that voting machines should be audited by a “federally or a state accredited test lab,” which comes after jurisdictions in Arizona and Pennsylvania saw their election machines decertified after a third party handled them.
The Justice Department also issued guidance late last month saying some post-election audits could run afoul of federal law. “Election audits are exceedingly rare. But the Department is concerned that some jurisdictions conducting them may be using, or proposing to use, procedures that risk violating the Civil Rights Act,” the DOJ memo read.
Why now? The secretaries’ guidelines comes as Trump and his supporters push for even more post-election reviews, after he narrowly lost several states to now-President Joe Biden. Trump continues to lie about the election, claiming there was widespread fraud.
The most notable post-election review has been in Arizona, where the Republican-led state Senate has targeted Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county that Biden narrowly carried en route to flipping the state.
That review, which Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Republican officials in Maricopa have vociferously opposed, has stretched on for months longer than initially expected. Supporters call it an “audit,” a label almost universally rejected by election officials and experts because the Arizona effort has poorly defined processes and has embraced some conspiracies.
Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann tweeted on Monday that a draft report is being prepared, and a spokesperson for the review told KNXV that a draft report could be delivered to the state Senate as soon as Friday.
Trump has pushed his supporters to export the Maricopa review to other states. Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have tried to launch their own, but so far neither have made similar sort of progress as in Arizona.
FILED UNDER: RECOUNTS, 2020 ELECTIONS, 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
“The guidelines also call for auditors to be wary of third-party involvement...”
Of course, when you are committing fraud, the one thing you absolutely want to avoid are outside auditors reviewing things with unbiased eyes.
How many of these State SoS’s were installed by Soros? Without knowing that, their opinions are as suspect as their policies.
We are doomed even more once they do all of this. We are already a banana republic. They want to make sure that their cheating is never detected.
What are they afraid of? SIMPLE! “This is how voting is going to be done from now on. If you don’t play along, and support this, you’ll never be ‘allowed’ to win another election. You run for dog catcher? LANDSLIDE against you.”
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