Did Pennsylvania decertify voting machines because of what an audit found?
Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid decertified voting machines in Fulton County because the county gave software firm Wake TSI access to the machines, not because of any problems the company found.
In a letter to county officials, Degraffenreid said that the inspection by Wake TSI, which was requested by local Republican lawmakers, violated state law. It was done in a manner that “was not transparent or bipartisan” and the firm had “no knowledge or expertise in election technology,” Degraffenreid wrote.
Degraffenreid’s letter said neither Fulton County nor the vendor, Dominion Voting Systems, nor the Department of State “can verify that the impacted components of Fulton County’s leased voting system are safe to use in future elections.”
Pennsylvania law requires that voting machine testing be done by a federally accredited lab. Wake TSI is not federally accredited.