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Pennsylvania lawmakers are asking Gov. Tom Wolf to hold a special session on election integrity, but he has refused.

Thirty-two House representatives sent a letter to Wolf asking him to call the special session. 

“We call on you to exercise your constitutional authority to immediately convene the General Assembly into a special session for the purpose of enabling the General Assembly to swear in its members and organize,” the letter says.

They write that due to the extraordinary election activities that have occurred, they believe it is necessary to swear in their new members and convene immediately to work on election integrity.

“There are numerous unanswered questions regarding the election that require a sitting General Assembly to examine and fulfill our duty to conduct oversight,” the letter says. “A General Assembly in session is necessary to seek answers to these questions to help restore our citizens’ faith in the electoral process.”

The House members want questions answered regarding logs that indicated where dropbox ballots were delivered; whether local officials had a two-person per key system for ballot dropboxes; how ballots were delivered to the Pennsylvania Convention Center; lists of jurisdictions using private grants to pay election workers; and information regarding access to videos of dropboxes, among other questions.

“We call on you to exercise the authority granted to you in our Pennsylvania constitution to call the General Assembly immediately into session so that we can provide the election oversight the public deserves,” the letter states.

Wolf has been adamant about not calling a special session.

“Let me be clear: There is absolutely no reason to call a special session,” Wolf tweeted earlier on Friday. “President Trump’s own attorney general said there was no widespread fraud. We had a free and fair election and now it’s time to move on.”