The first of three scheduled hearings with state legislatures occurred in Gettysburg today. Others are scheduled in Arizona and Michigan.
The hearing, which spanned nearly four hours, was held by the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee.
“I know crooks really well,” Rudy Giuliani said in the hearing. “You give them an inch and they take a mile, and you give them a mile and they take your whole country.”
President Trump called into the hearing at one point and was played on speakerphone.
“This was an election that we won easily, we won it by a lot,” Trump said. “This election was rigged and we can’t let that happen … This election has to be turned around.”
Early on in the hearing, witnesses who had worked as poll watchers on Election Day alleged they were unable to properly observe the action.
“The Philadelphia board of elections processed hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots with zero civilian oversight or observation,” poll watcher Justin Qweder said. “The board of elections erected a fence about 50 feet into the hall that ran the length of the room, all observers were corralled behind the fence. More than a hundred board workers processed and opened mail-in ballots on the other side of the fence.”
Qweder said due to the setup at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, proper observation was not possible.
“Due to the distance of the workers from the erected fences, it was impossible for me or any observer to see what the workers were doing with any type of specificity,” he said. “The observers were not able to challenge any decision or determination being made about the processing of these mail-in ballots.”
Another poll watcher, Kim Peterson, also testified she could not see anything.
“You could not even see at all … very discouraging,” she said.
Joe Biden beat Trump by 81,660 votes in the state.
A judge today blocked the certification of those votes to which the Wolf administration immediately appealed.
The order focuses on mail-in ballots.
Also today, the Beaver County GOP announced an investigation into ballots from nursing homes that allegedly include the same handwriting.
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