Senator Ron Wyden Explains Why We Need To Audit The Votes

Sen. Ron Wyden (D) explains why the Maricopa County full forensic audit is vital to restoring election integrity in the United States of America.Show more

"The vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use election management systems that run on old software that is soon going to be out of date and ripe for exploitation by hackers according to an exhaustive analysis by the Associated Press. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Arizona, and North Carolina among others are all at risk. Even the State of Georgia which passed legislation to buy new voting machines is on track to buy equipment that suffers from the significant cyber security weakness."

"Lets say the election is decided by a small percentage and people in America don't think that the election was fair. The effect that would have on our 200-year experiment in self governance, our democratic system would take a real hit."

"Our elections weren't secure last week and they sure as heck aren't secure this week and anybody who says otherwise is either selling you voting machines or simply has a malicious intent towards our elections."

"At one point in the Intelligence Committee, both sides seemed to agree that no votes were changed in the 2016 election. And, I said, the experts I talk to say that until you have a forensic analysis of a vote, until you got in there and scrub the whole system, you can't really say that."