AZ Ballot Audit Sparks Similar Interest in These 3 States
The ongoing vote audit in Maricopa County, Arizona has caused three other states to consider a second look at their election results.
Last week, a Georgia judge awarded a group the chance to review over 147,000 mail ballots in Fulton County. It’s the most populated county in the state at over 1 million residents, and it includes the city of Atlanta.
The lawsuit was filed by Garland Favorito, a longtime skeptic of Georgia’s voting systems who doesn’t call himself a Trump supporter. Favorito says he voted for the U.S. Constitution Party candidate, Don Blankenship, last year. He said this in an interview:
“Our ultimate objective is the truth. What is the truth of this election? Don’t tell us what the results are and then hide it from us and pretend we have to accept whatever you tell us.”
Other Georgia leaders are also backing this audit. Former Democrat state Rep. Vernon Jones is a Trump backer, and challenging Gov. Brian Kemp in the GOP primary. He held a news conference outside the state Capitol last week to blast the governor for not commissioning a statewide audit. Jones had this to say:
“There’s a dead cat on the end of this line, and we just want to find out what it is, that’s all. People have a right to know. What are you hiding?”
The second state with a county looking at an audit is in Michigan. Two cybersecurity experts involved in the Arizona audit were part of a lawsuit filed in Antrim County, Michigan. Ben Cotton and Doug Logan filed expert witness reports that alleged security issues in voting machines.
It sought to compel a statewide election audit. However, the case was dismissed by a judge last week. However, a Michigan attorney used Logan and Cotton’s claims to strengthen the case for a ‘forensic audit’ of voting machines in rural Cheboygan County.
It’s also sparked pro-Trump groups to ask for a post-election audit of a state house race in Windham, New Hampshire. Which happens to be the home of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Only time will tell how successful these audits will be. However, it’s encouraging that more citizens and leaders want to make sure we have honest elections in our counties, states and nation. Tell your elected officials you want proof that our voting machines and processes are accurate and can be trusted.
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