When a post appeared on the Erie County Republican Party s Facebook page in early June calling for a so-called forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election, I asked Erie County Republican Party Chairman Verel Salmon what such an audit might achieve.
Weeks later, I posed a similar question to state Rep. Curt Sonney on why the GOP, with his co-sponsorship, had proposed so many drastic changes to Pennsylvania s election laws two years after the Republican-controlled General Assembly approved some of the most monumental changes to those same rules in eight decades.
Both Salmon and Sonney gave similar answers: There was an alarming amount of distrust and unease from their respective constituencies presumably many of the same people over the results of the 2020 election. Something needed to be done, they contended, to restore faith in our electoral system.