It’s still not clear who financed an audit of Fulton County’s election equipment earlier this year, or how much it cost, despite persistent questions from the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee during its first hearing on the matter Thursday afternoon.

Fulton County Commission Chairman Stewart Ulsh testified before lawmakers that he never considered how expensive the probe – first suggested to him by Sen. Judy Ward, R-Hollidaysburg in the weeks following the 2020 election – might be and confirmed only that it did not cost anything for taxpayers.