Subpoenas Issued for Info on Every Pennsylvania Voter as Part of 2020 Election Probe

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Subpoenas Issued for Info on Every Pennsylvania Voter as Part of 2020 Election Probe

By Katherine Fung On 9/15/21 at 12:18 PM EDT


A Pennsylvania Senate subcommittee has voted to approve 17 subpoenas for personal information on every voter in the state as part of the Republican-controlled Legislature's investigation into the 2020 election. On Wednesday, Republican lawmakers voted to subpoena Democratic Governor Tom Wolf's administration for voter records, communication between state and county election officials, and other documents as part of their probe.

The subpoena on voter information will include the last four digits of social security numbers and driver's license numbers of those who voted in last year's presidential election. Pennsylvania law prohibits the public release of that information. State Republicans also want to know how each person voted—by mail or in-person, absentee or provisional ballot—and when each ballot was casted, both in the presidential election and May's primary election.

Republicans have denied that the investigation is related to efforts to overturn the election but rather part of their commitment to conduct a "full forensic investigation" of it. Jason Thompson, a Senate Republican spokesperson, said the goal of the probe is to determine if there were anomalies, and if so, "by what methods of voting those issues were most prevalent." President Joe Biden won Pennsylvania in 2020 by more than 80,000 votes.

Multiple lawsuits challenging the results in the state have been thrown out or otherwise failed. County and state audits have also found no issue of voter fraud with the results of the election. Democrats have vowed to fight any subpoenas. It's not clear whether Wolf's administration can be forced in handing over the information being summoned. Last year, his administration refused to comply with a subpoena related to the governor's handling of the pandemic, saying he and those under his authority "are exempt from subpoenas relating to the exercise of such authority."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/subpoenas-issued-info-every-pennsylvania-voter-part-2020-election-probe-1629468

PA Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro tweeted this -

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Josh Shapiro
@JoshShapiroPA
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Sep 15, 2021
This “audit” is BS.

It is a sham — and it’s all for Donald Trump.

Republicans are issuing subpoenas for information they already have, just to prove to him they’ll go to literally any length for his illegitimate fight to overturn our election.

But their theatre is dangerous.
Josh Shapiro
@JoshShapiroPA
They want your private information — your social security number — to pass on to mysterious third party contractors.

To add insult to injury, they want you to pay for it.

Let me be clear: they aren’t getting your private information without going through me.
1:46 PM · Sep 15, 2021

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AG Josh Shapiro
@PAAttorneyGen
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Sep 15, 2021
No need for subpoenas, you guys already have access.

CC: @JakeCorman and Senator Dush.

https://dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Documents/Elections%20Division/requestvoterlists.pdf
AG Josh Shapiro
@PAAttorneyGen
And to be clear, there is no way you are getting Pennsylvanians' private information to give to some mystery company without going through me.
1:19 PM · Sep 15, 2021

[PortTack]

1. Happy to see AG Shapiro weigh in...he's not having it!!

[BumRushDaShow]

3. I am glad too!!

And also glad about the gradual exposure of what are basically empty threats, where the nonsense demanding social security numbers should get an immediate slap down injunction...

[Champp]

2. Big Brother Republican Fascism in action

Republicans are trying to stick their big, fat, fascist noses into the private lives of Americans.

I'm sure Q and its followers will throw an epic hissy fit about the Republicans.

[Mad_Machine76]

4. They'll fight for the "freedom" of people to not have to take a vaxx (for reasons)

but then they're busy trying to get identification information regarding voters, (partial) social security numbers, etc. It's f**ked up IMHO.

[Baked Potato]

5. PsyOp to cause voters to doubt their State systems.

Republicans are what they eat:

T***p bullshit and Russian tactics.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Republicans want to sell the private info to data collectors so they can scam everyone.

[Lovie777]

7. PA needs to vote republicans out....

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Registered Democrats outnumber Registered Republicans

but they gerrymandered both the state and congressional districts back in 2010 and we were able to get the mess completely thrown out for the congressional districts in 2018 (going from 13 (R) - 5 (D) to 9 (R) - 9 (D)). But the semi-update of the state legislative districts, only got minor tweaks in 2012 after a court case because the GOP had a trifecta here (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches).

At least this year, Democrats run the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch (the State Supreme Court is 5 (D) - 2 (R)), so we have a bit more power at the moment.

[Goonch]

8. Cyborg Ninjas stand by for the count

[BumRushDaShow]

10. They were supposedly "in quarantine" due to COVID infections

so me wonders what happened with that.

[Champp]

11. Cyborg Drones might put a Whammy on your Cyborg Ninjas

Don't say you weren't warned.