Bob Rust and Joe Vichot Interview Garland Favorito
Originally Published: October 10, 2024
USACN Published: 6/20/26
Source: USA CN Podcast
Source URL: Election Integrity Advocate Garland Favorito Discusses Election Reform,
Organization(s): VoterGA
Interview Participants
- Garland Favorito – Co-Founder, VoterGA
- Attorney Robert N. Rust III – USA Citizens Network Interviewer
- Joe Vichot – Chairman, Lehigh County Republican Committee
Interview #1 (Pre–November 2024 General Election Interview)
- Date Interviewed: October 10, 2024
- Description: Pre–November 2024 General Election Interview
Summary
This interview was recorded on October 10, 2024, approximately one month before the November 2024 General Election.
In this USA Citizens Network interview, Attorney Bob Rust and Lehigh County Republican Committee Chairman Joe Vichot speak with election-integrity advocate Garland Favorito, co-founder of VoterGA. Favorito discusses his background in information technology, cybersecurity, election systems, and two decades of election-integrity work in Georgia. He explains the reforms enacted in Georgia following the 2020 election and outlines measures designed to improve transparency, ballot accountability, chain-of-custody procedures, reconciliation processes, and election security.
Favorito describes concerns involving private election funding, absentee ballot procedures, ballot trafficking allegations, voting-machine security, QR-code voting systems, election audits, and reconciliation of ballots cast versus voters who voted. He explains how Georgia election laws were modified to address some of these concerns, including restrictions on outdoor drop boxes, requirements for security paper, improvements to chain-of-custody procedures, and expanded public access to election records.
The discussion also compares election procedures in Georgia and Pennsylvania. Joe Vichot raises concerns about drop boxes, ballot reconciliation, mail-in voting, audits, and election administration in Pennsylvania. Favorito argues that election transparency, public observation, and independently verifiable election procedures are essential to public confidence in election outcomes.
Throughout the interview, Favorito emphasizes that election integrity should be a nonpartisan issue and encourages citizens to become involved as poll workers, election-board members, observers, and grassroots advocates working to improve election administration and transparency.
Key Topics
- Garland Favorito
- VoterGA
- Election integrity
- Georgia election reforms
- Election transparency
- Ballot chain of custody
- Election audits
- Voting-machine security
- QR-code voting systems
- Ballot reconciliation
- Mail-in voting
- Drop boxes
- Election administration
- Poll watchers
- Citizen oversight
- Election accountability
- Pennsylvania elections
- Lehigh County elections
Selected Quotes from Transcript
“We are now recognized as the leaders in implementing election integrity procedures since 2020 in order to help protect the 2024 election.”
Video Time: ~05:50–06:08
Transcript PDF Page: 2
“The legislature has banned all outdoor drop boxes.”
Video Time: ~12:20–12:50
Transcript PDF Page: 5
“Now all ballots will be conducted on security paper with visible watermarks.”
Video Time: ~13:45–14:05
Transcript PDF Page: 5
“The legislature has banned the QR code.”
Video Time: ~15:20–15:35
Transcript PDF Page: 5
“The number of ballots cast should equal the number of voters who voted.”
Video Time: ~25:00
Transcript PDF Page: 9
“Manual to me means a hand-count of the ballots.”
Video Time: ~27:57–28:05
Transcript PDF Page: 10
“You have to have a hand count. It’s the only provable way and transparent way for voters to know that the correct winners were actually selected.”
Video Time: ~37:45–38:15
Transcript PDF Page: 13
“You can’t have election integrity without election transparency.”
Video Time: ~51:05–51:40
Transcript PDF Page: 18
“The voting machines are not secure.”
Video Time: ~51:40–52:05
Transcript PDF Page: 18
“Your civic duty doesn’t end just in voting.”
Video Time: ~53:00–53:15
Transcript PDF Page: 19
“It’s just grassroots activism at its best.”
Video Time: ~54:45–55:02
Transcript PDF Page: 19
“If you can propose a reasonable solution… then you’ll gain credibility with the legislators and the election board members.”
Video Time: ~55:35–56:05
Transcript PDF Page: 20
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