Pennsylvania election audit - Delta variant risk - Hong Kong press crackdown

State Sen. David Argall, who heads a committee that oversees elections, told local news outlets he favors a forensic audit of the contest that state and federal officials insist was secure. The Republican, under pressure by former President Donald Trump to take action, told the Capital-Star the audit is now a “very real possibility."
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Pennsylvania and Arizona are two states won by President Joe Biden last year in which post-election audits showed no widespread fraud. But the audit in Maricopa County, commissioned by the GOP-led Arizona Senate, has become a beacon of hope for Trump and his supporters who herald the legislature-backed review as a model for other states to replicate.
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Republican lawmakers from several states, including Pennsylvania, have made the pilgrimage to Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, where the Maricopa County audit is stationed, to learn more about the process. All this is playing out as the Justice Department appears poised to crack down on the Maricopa County audit before releasing its findings.