Trump 'Big Lie' Behind Pennsylvania Vote Audit Push, AG Says

(Bloomberg) -- Former President Donald Trump’s “big lie” about the 2020 election being stolen is at the heart of Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers’ effort to access detailed personal information on 9 million registered voters, the state’s attorney general told a judge.

A subpoena for the data issued to state election officials last month by GOP state senators is an attempt to “sow electoral distrust,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said in a court filing Thursday.

The fight comes on the heels of Shapiro’s announcement on Wednesday that he is running for governor of Pennsylvania in 2022, with voting rights at the center of his platform. As attorney general, he successfully fought off a wave of legal attacks over the 2020 election results by Trump and his supporters.

Republican state senators including Cris Dush and Jake Corman are trying to conduct an audit of the results similar to that recently conducted by Arizona’s GOP, which ultimately failed to show Trump was cheated. Shapiro’s filing seeks a court order quashing the subpoena on the grounds that it would violate voter privacy and propagate myths about a stolen election.

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