HARRISBURG, Feb. 11 – As the nation and world bear witness to the stark reality and horrific results of former President Trump and his surrogates’ incitement of violence and insurrection on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, members of the PA House State Government Committee continue to learn from county and state elections officials about the barriers to running efficient elections and audits in the face of similar provocation, according to the committee’s Democratic Chair Margo Davidson, D-Delaware. Davidson said the House State Government Committee today held its third of 14 planned public hearings on the settled 2020 election, where elections audit experts and participants explained to lawmakers the importance of giving counties time to count ballots and audit elections, along with support as elections are being held. “The three partisan hearings held by the committee to date have shown that the majority Republicans’ own meddling in the process and refusal to give counties adequate time to count mail-in ballots are the factors that lead to delays in counting, confusion among county elections officials and a lack of public confidence in Pennsylvania’s election,” Davidson said. “My Republican colleagues on the committee continue to pose their questions in a not so clever attempt to cast doubt on the integrity of the free and fairly held 2020 election. But the answers they are getting to those questions continue to show that Read more