GOP Candidate Demands Delco Machines Be Quarantined And Investigated — Congressional candidate Alfe Goodwin of Drexel Hill told County Council last night, Oct. 16, that Delaware County, Pa is violating state and federal rules regarding voting machine testing.
A injunction was filed Oct. 11 to quarantine the 18 machines tested in September to protect the chain of custody. She said they must be given to the FBI for investigation.
The remaining 838 precinct machines must then be tested to see if they have the same problems, she said.
The problems are that the tested machines are not in the configuration verified by either the federal Election Assistance Commission or the Pennsylvania Department of State.
She further said that the “trusted build” performed in September was done on only 2 percent of the machines. One must be done all all 856 precinct machines for an election to be valid.
It would violate the law for these machines to be used Nov. 5.
Ms. Goodwin is the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District. She called for her Democrat opponent, incumbent Mary Gay Scanlon, to join her in demanding the law be followed.
The 5th District consists of all of Delaware County along with parts of Philadelphia, Montgomery and Chester counties.
The case filed to enjoin the use of the machines is CV 2024008838.
That election doubts are widespread is entirely the fault of certain government bodies including Delaware County Council.
This group fights rulings by the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records to release election documents. They refuse to give poll watchers the expected access at the central ballot counting center.
Now, they have reached the point where congressional candidates are calling foul.
There is no innocent explanation for Council’s behavior.
Also last night, Charlie Alexander of Marple said he was told by police that people have been seen dropping 10 or 15 ballots in election dropboxes. Donna Yarnell of Marple said Delco has more dropboxes than any other county in the state.
This is true.
Councilwoman Christine Reuther boasted at meeting’s start about Delco’s 36 drop boxes. This is more than either Philadelphia or Allegheny counties which are much larger and include major cities.
Kathy from Haverford said that half the solar cameras supposedly providing security on the boxes don’t work.
Kathy also questioned the pop-up satellite voter services offices put up by the county and noted that Councilman Kevin Madden has yet to address his business connections to the BlueCrest ballot sorters used by the county.
Tom Flocco of Upper Providence encouraged all to watch the documentary Big Con which featured video of suspicious actions during Delaware County elections.
It will be available at Patriot.Online.
Bill from Upper Darby reminded all holding an oath of office that following orders is not an excuse.
“We will have our republic back,” he said.
At the beginning of the meeting, Ms. Reuther said that the county has received 27,000 ballots so far with 20,000 coming by mail, 4,000 being left at the Courthouse and 3,550 coming from community dropboxes.
GOP Candidate Demands Delco Machines Be Quarantined And Investigated