The Washington County Commissioners meeting on Thursday was flooded with supporters of former President Donald Trump, who were calling on commissioners to launch a forensic audit of the 2020 election. Commissioners listened to nearly an hours worth of public comment from the group who claimed election fraud, with one woman calling it a “Digital Pearl Harbour.” Many in the group called on the county to dump the electronic voting machines and go back to using paper ballots. Commissioner’s Chairperson, Diana Irey-Vaughan pointed out that the county would sustain damages, not only from spending millions of dollars to replace the brand new voting machines, but they would be decertified by the state if a third party accessed them for such an audit. Donald Trump won the election in Washington County but lost Pennsylvania. Irey-Vaughn also pointed out that a new review committee oversaw the election and out of some forty allegations of fraud, only two actually warranted investigations. Irey-Vaughan also said that the board would need a recommendation from that committee to move forward with an audit.