Pennsylvania Republican poll watchers allege fraud

“What I’m saying to you is not a single one of these mail-in ballots were inspected as the law required. Even when a court order was obtained, to allow the Republican inspectors to get six feet closer there,” said the president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. “They move the people counting the ballots six further feet away. It’s really simple. If you have nothing to hide, let people watch.”

Protests raged outside the event as supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden clashed with others who were on hand to hear the latest updates from the president’s legal team, with police regularly intervening in order to break up confrontations.

Giuliani, as well as senior campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski, who also attended the event, remained adamant that they believe rampant fraud had taken place in Philadelphia.

During the press conference, Giuliani presented several GOP poll workers who said they faced difficulty or were excluded from monitoring ballot counting in various Philadelphia precincts.

“So, when I went to the poll, there was, basically, they put us 20 feet away and said no cameras, no phones, you cannot take pictures,” said Darrien Rooks, a GOP poll watcher and Philadelphia resident. “We don’t know if people voted twice or three times. There were no people watching. We are a democracy, and they wouldn’t let us see anything. … We just want a fair election, and we viewed it was not fair at all.”

Another poll watcher, Matt Silver, went a step further and said he saw behavior in the actual vote-counting process that looked suspicious.

“When I was there, I saw some people trying to look at the ballots legitimately, but some people were flipping through them at a rate of every second or so in a way that we could not even see [the count] take effect,” Silver said. “To the extent that you could see a thing in certain boxes [of ballots], they seem to be at least be using the same unusable pen and seem to have very similar handwriting.”

Silver went on to say that election officials broke protocol after counting ballots by separating them from the privacy ballot, making them impossible to know which voter they originated from.

“What I saw was disturbing, and the process seemed to be specifically so that we could not observe and also we could not challenge.”

Lewandowski, who is aiding the president’s attempts to get an audit of the votes in Pennsylvania, read names from voters who he says were dead by the time they cast a ballot.

“I draw your attention to the obituary for one Denise Ondish in Allegheny County Born 9/10/1946, deceased 10/22/2020. Her application to vote was received on 10/23, the day after she died. It was then mailed by the county back to her on 10/24/2020 after she legally passed away,” he said, waving a piece of paper purporting to show her voting records. “The ballot was then received back at the county office on November 2 2020. And when you go to the Secretary of State’s website today, it says she voted in this election.”

The Washington Examiner could not immediately verify the veracity of Lewandowski’s claims, although he said it was “one of many he will be making in front of the court.”

Giuliani was adamant that his findings will end up in litigation and that his team will find evidence of voter fraud outside of Pennsylvania.

“This case is a civil rights case. It will be filed in federal court,” he told the Washington Examiner. “What the case alleges, very simply, is that President Trump’s campaign was denied its right to a fair count, which is a deprivation of civil rights. And that’s the case. The court has a wide range of what are called equitable remedies which could include depriving a jurisdiction of a certain number of votes equal to the number of voters that are found to be not inspected properly.”