Letter to the editor: If election system works, audit should be supported

Tricia Cunningham’s op-ed “Corman, Mastriano act tough on election integrity, but they caused the problems” (Dec. 18, TribLIVE) denigrates Republican state Sens. Jake Corman and Doug Mastriano for advocating a complete audit of the 2020 elections on the basis that they both voted for Act 77 which was partly to blame for all the confusion in 2020.

What’s wrong with trying to fix a broken election system, regardless of what caused it? An audit is the basis of any effort to fix it.

Act 77 allowed a major increase in mail-in voting. But what happened was that the secretary of state and local election bureaus made additional changes that were not included in Act 77.

Many mail-in voters were allowed to vote without providing identity, nor verification. Some districts allowed voters to fix errors on their ballots while others did not. Deadlines were changed at the last minute. None of these changes were approved by Act 77, nor any other legislative action.

In addition, the Democrats and the media are dead set against any audit, examination of voting machines or any other effort to fix the system. Why ?

If our system is as clean as the Democrats claim, they should support all efforts to audit it. It will prove their point. But they are not. What are they hiding?

I applaud the Republicans trying to fix the system. Require voter ID and verification regardless of voting method, and make reasonable time deadlines. Nothing is more important than protecting the sanctity of our elections.

Bob Jacobs

Unity