‘It’s a Felony:’ A New Lawsuit, with Video Evidence, Alleges Delaware County, Pennsylvania Election

And more questionable election antics showing up with a new whistleblower lawsuit.

First and foremost this thread it NOT about did Trump win, The Big Lie, overturning the election, Jan 6 blah blah blah

This is about the integrity of our elections and the security needed to keep what appears to be corrupt officials from manipulating the voting and the results.

Here is a copy of the lawsuit
https://electioninvestigationlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/PA-Del.-Co.-Hoopes-18Nov2021.pdf

‘It’s a Felony:’ A New Lawsuit, with Video Evidence, Alleges Delaware County, Pennsylvania Election Officials Destroyed Voting Records

A lawsuit alleging multiple violations of federal and state election laws, as well as Pennsylvania’s

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“Right to Know” statute, was filed in Delaware County Court of Pennsylvania Wednesday night, according to sources familiar with the litigation.

The suit (case number: 18770163723592297 was brought by plaintiffs Gregory Stenstrom, Leah Hoopes and Ruth Morin. Stenstrom, a 2020 Republican poll watcher, has been outspoken in recent months regarding alleged irregularities in ballot canvassing in Delaware County. Defendants include election officials Marilyn Heider and James Ziegelhoffer as well as Delaware County, the Delaware County Board of Elections and the Delaware County Bureau of Elections.

In early 2021, a whistleblower working for the Delaware County Bureau of Elections began inquiring why it was apparent to her that multiple documents pertaining to the Nov. 3, 2020 elections were being destroyed in the southeastern Pennsylvania county, the sources said. The name of the whistleblower has not yet been made public....

....One video provided by the more recent lawsuit’s sources shows Tom Gallagher, a lawyer and election official in Delaware County, destroying elongated pieces of paper – allegedly the voting-machine tapes election officials are required to preserve. In that recording, the whistleblower asks Gallagher off-camera why he is tearing up the documents. Gallagher replies, “At this point, I don’t want anybody to pick it up and think that we threw stuff away.”

...Another election official, James Ziegelhoffer (identified in the video as “Ziggy”), then says, “We’re gonna have a little campfire going.”

“What I don’t understand – and this makes, honestly, this makes me nervous – is why tapes were being thrown away,” the whistleblower is shown asking Ziegelhoffer in a second video.

Ziegelhoffer began to protest that “no tapes were…,” and the whistleblower interjected that Ziegelhoffer and other election officials were throwing away tapes and she again asked why they did so.

Ziegelhoffer replied, “They’re all unidentifiable.” After the whistleblower pointed out that all election records have to be preserved for 22 months, Ziegelhoffer said, “Well, let’s put it this way: Yes, there are tapes that are being tossed, but they are of no audit value.”

....A third recording captures a conversation between county Voting Machine Warehouse Supervisor and Jim Savage and Director of Election Operations James Allen about disposing of “pads and second scanners.” After Allen mentions those materials, Savage replies, “We can’t talk about it anymore.” When Allen asks him why, Savage says, “It’s a felony.”
https://tennesseestar.com/2021/11/1...-election-officials-destroyed-voting-records/

There are LAWS covering these matters, let's hope that if the allegations are proven election officials are held to them and prosecute to the full extent. The question is what do we do about the future? I have been advocating for a long time and in particular after all the problems in 2020 at various levels and mainly with the officials themselves along with some judges who intercede in the election process the need for a New Carter/Baker election commission and hopefully states and local officials take notice and enact recommendations.