Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania voted on Wednesday to subpoena the state's top election official in a review that joins widely criticized efforts in other battleground states aimed at fueling doubts about the 2020 election.
With a 7-to-4 vote along party lines, Republicans in the state Senate committee overseeing the review will issue a subpoena for information on some 7 million voters from Veronica Degraffenreid, acting head of the Department of State.
Trump's loss in Pennsylvania to President Joe Biden by nearly 81,000 votes was confirmed by multiple audits and certified more than nine months ago. Cris Dush, the Republican chair of the Intergovernmental Operations committee overseeing the review, said at a hearing that the objective was to verify whether votes were cast by people who "exist" and to look into various allegations made about the election to see whether they have any foundation in fact.
Dush said that unlike the audit in Arizona, Pennsylvania's review would be funded by taxpayers. The lawmaker, a Trump supporter who toured the Arizona operation in June, also promised he was "not going to be hiring political activists" to carry out the review. He said he was still vetting vendors.
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