right-wing state senators there,
including doug mastriano have
been very focused on bringing a
forensics review.
a few weeks ago he sent letters
to three counties asking them
for election machines, ballot
records and voting records and
trying to do his own version of
an audit there.
now, those counties didn't have
to comply.
they refused to.
philadelphia said it would cost
them $35 million to comply with
those requests and it would
expose some of these voting
machines to either an
uncredentialed or unknown vendor
who would be conducting this.
so after all of that and after
the secretary of state or the
acting secretary of state in
pennsylvania discouraged those
counties from participating,
senator mastriano was removed
from his position.
and now the top republican in
the senate said that he too now
backs this audit.
and that was a big step because
that means that it will happen.
so hearings are going to begin
this week in the state senate.
what we don't know is the scope
of this.
we...