Fulton County Decertification as Retaliation for Independent Audit (PA)

After Fulton County, PA commissioned an independent forensic review of its Dominion election systems – an act expressly authorized by state law – the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth decertified Fulton County’s voting machines. The stated basis was not any finding of fraud, but that the county had “permitted an independent inspection.” Fulton County sued, characterizing the decertification as unlawful retaliation using state power to punish a county for exercising its audit rights.