Audit Elections News Today

Also rudy giuliani, i believe, working on his pac, put together a slate of fake electors. so we saw president trump and people around him consider various methods to undermine the free and fair election of joe biden in 2020. and stephanie, although they failed to steal that election, they have not stopped. we seeing the worst attack on democracy now and we have to do everything we can to stop it. >> weve asked other people in your position what happened if bad actors became election officials in...

Here? >> well, willie, look, if you promote the big lie then you are responsible for the consequences of the big lie. glenn youngkin spent his entire campaign telling elections are the biggest issues and we need to audit elections and questioning the results of november 2020. when he gets caught on it, he back pedals as he did yesterday. the rally was proinsurrection folks that oh, i didnt know about it. willie, this is personal. on january 6th, the governor of virginia ordered state troopers an...

Horrible election corruption. >> reporter: in september, trump sent texas governor greg abbott a letter calling for the state to conduct a full forensic audit of the election with zero evidence. trump writes, texans know voter fraud occurred. it didnt take long for abbott to feel the pressure. on the same day, the republican governor announced an audit in harris, dallas, tarrant and collin counties. >> isnt it just a terrible waste of taxpayer money to have an audit in a state that everybody say...

That the president trump won by 600,000 votes and arent you contributing to the undermining confidence in the election process? >> why dont we audit everything in the world but people raise their hands in concern when we audit elections, which is fund mental to the democracy. >> reporter: earlier the election administrator told a committee there were no problems with the election. >> despite all the circumstances, texas had an election that was smooth and secure. >> president trump said jump, th...

Weed out this horrible election corruption. >> reporter: in september, trump sent texas governor, greg abbott, a letter calling for the state to conduct a full-forensic audit of the election with zero evidence trump writes texans know voter fraud occurred. it didnt take long for abbott to feel the pressure. on the same day, the republican governor announced an audit in harris, dallas, tarrant, and colin counties. >> isnt it just a terrible waste of taxpayer money to have an audit in a state that...

Way the government operations work, businesses that are public companies are subject to an annual audit, why do we audit everything in this world and people raise their hands and concern will be audit elections which is fundamental to our democracy. the second point, these audits that the state of texas is doing, they begin months ago because the secretary of state of texas has an obligation to make sure that we conduct audits in the state of texas and they have to be done before any evidence wo...

Way the government operations work, businesses that are public companies are subject to an annual audit, why do we audit everything in this world and people raise their hands and concern will be audit elections which is fundamental to our democracy. the second point, these audits that the state of texas is doing, they begin months ago because the secretary of state of texas has an obligation to make sure that we conduct audits in the state of texas and they have to be done before any evidence wo...

And the stability of the united states. maria: the doj is warning the states dont even think about auditing anything election 2020 the department warning states to tread carefully to audit elections are they getting political? >> it sounds that way to me. the integrity of the election comes to the states. they need to make their own decisions. what the democrats are trying to do is take the power away from the states and give it to the federal government so they can have unilateral control to ma...

Democrats arent alarmed enough about these sustained determined efforts on the trumpian right to attack the voting system. i mean, there is a direct line between donald trumps big election lie, the insurrection, and the ongoing attack on voting rights thats happening all over the country. i mean, my goodness, in arizona theyre collecting evidence. right? they are seizing the ballot machines to audit elections that have been already audited by professionals, sacrificing voter privacy along the wa...

This is not a ban of audits and, in fact, by -- as part of the system, colorado does audit elections. but this part about "afraid of election integrity," can you just give us a sense of the level of election integrity that takes place in colorado? >> we are considered the most secure state in which to cast a ballot, not just by me, the democratic secretary of state, but were actually commended by president trumps former dhs secretary, kirstjen nielsen, for our cybersecurity. we take cybersecurit...