Doug Mastriano, chairman of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee, explained in a lengthy letter to Boockvar that "Pennsylvanians no longer feel secure in casting their vote."
"The nucleus of any free society is confidence that each citizen's vote will count," Mastriano said. "Nothing is more crucial to Americans than confidence that our voices will be heard through voting."
Mastriano, who has been an enemy of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and his administration's ongoing coronavirus limitations, blamed Boockvar for "fail[ing] to deploy even the minimum safeguards."
A retired Army colonel, Mastriano said that he had directed NATO's Joint Intelligence Center in Afghanistan, work that involved providing "oversight and security to Afghan elections -- a country that had never witnessed an honest election."
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Mastriano further said that the NATO apparatus helped to secure an election that was both safe and fair, with many security measures in place to guarantee one vote per legal voter.
"I wish I could say the same of elections in Pennsylvania during your time as the Secretary of the Commonwealth," he wrote, adding that he and countless Pennsylvania voters have "lost confidence" in the secretary's authority.
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On Thursday, Boockvar told reporters that the race between President Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden was "very close in Pennsylvania."
"There is no question that means it is going to take longer to actually see the winner,” added Boockvar, who said that “several hundred thousand ballots remain to be counted.”
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“The closer the race is, the longer it takes,” she added. “The overwhelming majority of ballots will be counted by Friday — we have counted the overwhelming majority, but because it is a close race, it is not quite clear who the winner is.”
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The Trump 2020 Campaign has sued Boockvar and boards of elections in each of the state's 67 counties, blaming Democrats of "scheming" to "disenfranchise and dilute" Republican votes.
As of midnight Eastern time, Trump’s Pennsylvania lead had narrowed to just a 0.37 percent margin — around 24,000 votes. And since the Democratic stronghold of Philadelphia has a huge amount of ballots left to count, that lead is highly likely to vanish.
A call for Biden in Pennsylvania would put him above the 270 electoral votes needed to win, likely making him the next president of the United States. He doesn’t have to win any other state.
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