On her Facebook page Wendy Bell posted this:
In a February 2019 audit of Pennsylvania elections boards, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale found officials in 18 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties reported accepting gifts, meals or trips from firms competing to sell new voting machines to counties ahead of the 2020 election.Later that year in December, DePasquale also released the results of a sweeping audit of Pennsylvania's registry of electors, examining the voter registrations of more than 8 million registered voters in the state.The results were staggering.DePasquale found:-24,408 cases where the same driver’s license number was listed in more than one voter record-13,913 potential duplicate birth certificates-6,876 potential date of birth inaccuracies-2,230 cases in which voters were born AFTER they registered to vote, and-2,991 records of potentially deceased voters, including 1800 people over age 110.
Two issues here. The February 2019 reporting on those gifts and then the December 2019 report on the voter records.
Presumably, Wendy wants her audience to infer large-scale voter fraud going on and is using the above to prove it. Guess what? It doesn't.
But let's look at the gifts, first. From the Auditor General's statement:
Auditor General Eugene DePasquale today said officials in 18 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties reported accepting gifts, meals or trips from firms competing to sell new voting machines to counties ahead of the 2020 election.
So far, so good. But which counties were they? And how did they vote in the 2020 election?
- Berks County - Went to Trump by about 16,000 votes.
- Bucks County - Went to Biden by about 16,000 votes.
- Butler County - Went to Trump by about 33,000 votes.
- Cambria County - Went to Trump by about 27,000 votes.
- Cameron County - Went to Trump by about 1,100 votes.
- Clearfield County - Went to Trump by about 29,000 votes.
- Clinton County - Went to Trump by about 36,000 votes.
- Delaware County - Went to Biden by about 88,000 votes.
- Elk County - Went to Trump by about 8,000 votes.
- Forest County - Went to Trump by about 1,100 votes.
- Lycoming County - Went to Trump by about 25,000 votes.
- Luzerne County - Went to Trump by about 22,000 votes.
- Northumberland County - Went to Trump by about 16,000 votes.
- Potter County - Went to Trump by about 1,500 votes.
- Warren County - Went to Trump by about 8,000 votes.
- Washington County - Went to Trump by about 27,000 votes.
- Westmoreland County - Went to Trump by about 57,000 votes.
- York County - Went to Trump by about 58,000 votes.
So is Wendy Bell really thinking that by pointing out the gifts made to the election officials in the above 18 counties (where 17 of them went overwhelmingly to Trump), she's effectively undermining the credibility of the Biden win?
That's just crazy. Right?
Then there's the December 2019 report.
For all of the details Wendy includes, she leaves one part out. I'll let Todd Defeo of the conservative news source, The Center Square summarize:
An audit of the state’s voter registration system uncovered “potentially bad data and sloppy record-keeping,” but stopped short of saying the results revealed any inappropriate voting. [Emphasis added.]
Huh. So both pieces of info that Wendy Bell supplied as evidence to question the credibility of President-Elect Biden's win over Donald Trump do nothing to actually support her conclusion.
Did she even bother to do the research on this?
Any comments, Wendy?
