Inquiry: 94% of key 2020 counties wrongly dumped ballot info

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The Washington Examiner

Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist

September 09, 2022

A new investigation into the record-keeping of 100 key 2020 battleground counties found that nearly all threw out or mishandled voting documentation they are supposed to keep for 22 months in case an audit is called.

Instead of complying with the 22-month requirement spelled out in the Civil Rights Act of 1960, 94 counties reported that they did not keep or sloppily handled information showing the vote.

As a result, it is impossible to get the number of ballots to equal the number of those who voted, in some cases leaving huge gaps.

“One of the most basic ways to ensure election transparency is to verify if the number of votes counted equals the number of people listed as voting,” said a new report from Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute.

“Of the 100 total counties, only six counties properly retained the voter files from the 2020 general election,” said the report, which was written by Steven Smith, AFPI's chief of staff, and John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.

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