Pennsylvania Voter Fraud Investigation Due to ‘Excess’ of Claims

York County in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania is investigating a “surplus” of voter registration forms and absentee ballot requests that were sent to the elections office after another county received thousands of voter registration forms that have been flagged as potential fraud.

The York County Elections Office received “a large shipment containing thousands of election-related materials from an outside organization,” including voter registration forms and absentee ballot applications, York County President Julie Wheeler said in a statement. York daily record.

“As with all filings, our staff follows a process designed to ensure that all voter registrations and mail-in ballot applications comply with the law. This process is currently underway. If we detect suspected fraud, we will notify the District Attorney’s Office, which will then conduct an investigation.”

Pennsylvania is a key battleground for next week’s election and both vice presidential elections Kamala Harris AND Donald Trump they are seeking the state’s 19 electoral votes, which polls show is an extremely close contest.

Wheeler said Fox 43 on Monday: “It is not unusual to receive large stacks of voter registrations or large stacks of absentee ballot requests, it was simply an overregistration from one particular organization.”

She added: “We need to do our homework before we go and make accusations when we don’t have data to support our claims.”

Wheeler has been contacted for further comment via email.

Wheeler’s comments come as an investigation continues in Lancaster County in which officials say they have uncovered fraudulent voter registrations among 2,500 forms that arrived at the county elections office shortly before Pennsylvania’s October 21 deadline to register to vote.

Election workers “noticed that many of the applications had the same handwriting, were completed on the same day with an unknown signature, and some were previously registered voters… and the signatures on file did not match the signatures on the application.” Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams, elected Republican– he announced on Friday at a press conference.

Adams stated that about 60 percent of the claims that have been investigated so far have been found to be fraudulent, although she did not disclose the total number of claims that have been fully investigated. Her office was contacted for comment via email.

Adams said problems with applications included false names, false personal information and inaccurate addresses.

“In some cases, the applications included correct personal information, such as a valid address, correct phone number, date of birth, driver’s license number and Social Security number, but the people named on the applications told detectives they did not request the form,” she said. “They did not complete the form and confirmed that the signature on the form was not theirs.”

She said the false registrations were believed to be linked to a “large-scale canvassing operation” carried out since June. However, she said most of the applications date back to Aug. 15 and most were from Lancaster residents.

“At this point, it appears to be an organized effort,” Adams said, but noted that the investigation is ongoing. “We will check who exactly participated in it and how far it goes,” she said.

Adams said two other counties, which she did not name, have received similar requests that are under investigation.