https://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/article252923743.html

Pennsylvania's top election official has decertified the voting machines of a small southern county that disclosed that it had agreed to requests by local Republican lawmakers and allowed a software firm to inspect the machines as part of an "audit" after the 2020 presidential election.

The action by Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid almost certainly means that Fulton County will have to buy new voting machines or, as it did in the May primary election, lease new ones.

Degraffenreid notified Fulton County officials in a letter Wednesday that the inspection by a firm with “no knowledge or expertise in election technology” violated state law.

“I have no other choice but to decertify the use of Fulton County’s leased Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5A voting system last used in the November 2020 election,” Degraffenreid wrote.

In May, Fulton County wrote to Degraffenreid to say that, under the supervision of the county's information technology director, employees of the West Chester-based software company Wake TSI took backups of key data on computers used in ballot-counting and complete images of the computers and thumb drives.

Fewer than 8,000 people in Fulton County voted in the election, backing Trump by almost seven-to-one over Democrat Joe Biden. Biden went on to win Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes.

Fulton County officials did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment

Sidney knew long ago fraud in every county

https://www.azmirror.com/2021/05/24/group-led-by-kraken-lawyer-sidney-powell-hired-the-firm-recounting-azs-election-to-probe-a-pa-election/

The report alleged that the audit found errors in scanning ballots; that Dominion Voting Systems, which provides the county’s voting machines, did not meet Pennsylvania certification requirements; that non-certified database tools were installed in the county’s voting system; that changes were made the election management system three weeks before the election; and that the machines had not been subjected to required logic-and-accuracy testing.

It is unclear why Powell and Defending the Republic specifically wanted an audit in Fulton County, which has a population of less than 15,000 and where about 85% of voters favored Trump over Joe Biden, who ultimately won Pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes. It’s also unclear why Defending the Republic contracted with Wake TSI, which is based in West Chester, just west of the Philadelphia area, to conduct the audit.

Dominion said Fulton County violated its lease agreement by allowing an unaccredited and non-certified company to examine the machines, and refused to allow the county to use the machines for a May 18 municipal election. The county had to pay $25,000 to lease new machines for the election.