“Despite the continued economic challenges facing thousands of Pennsylvania businesses and several million residents, the Republican-led legislature continues, withoutmerit, to relitigate the 2020 election. Pennsylvania hasalready conducted two-post election audits confirming the accuracy of last fall's count, with the results having been certified. Rather than focus on theurgent task of economic recovery, some in the legislature are devoting taxpayer monies to an ill-defined and dubious ‘forensic investigation’ of allballots cast for the 2020 presidential race. The investigation will put at riskthe private information of millions of Commonwealth residents. It will, however, further undermine publicconfidence in our election system.
Lawmakers leading the effort have not explained how it would be run, whether best practices for an audit will be followed; what the process is for selecting contractors, what role partisan politicians willplay; how the review will be documented; or how election equipment and ballots will be secured.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania’s economic recovery and ability to address the pandemic continues to suffer. Our Getting Back to Business (GBB) campaign includes a growing coalition of small and mid-sized businesses urging the StateLegislature to focus on crafting bipartisan policy solutions to help theCommonwealth economically recover, instead of pursuing partisan efforts to suppress the vote and make it harder for Black and Brown individuals to casttheir ballots in 2022.
To learn more, visit https://www.bfa.us/back-to-business-paFor more information, contact Jabari Jones, WPPC at Jabari.Jones@westphillycc.org
