Pennsylvania county is withholding hundreds of potentially fraudulent voter registration forms

Officials in Lancaster County in the swing state of Pennsylvania say they have identified hundreds of potentially fraudulent voter registration applications.

“Registration forms suspected of voter fraud were delivered to the Office of the Board of Elections in two batches on or near the filing deadline,” the board said in a statement. statement on Friday. “A total of approximately 2,500 voter registration applications were submitted across both parties.”

In its statement, the board emphasized that county elections are secure and that flagging potential fraud shows that “the systems worked.” In Republican-leaning Lancaster County, yes over 360,000 registered voters.

The statement said concerns “were raised during the normal process of staff reviewing and entering requests into the (state database) and law enforcement was alerted.”

At a Friday news conference with board members, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said many of the applications showed the same handwriting and other details, such as addresses, were incorrect.

Adams said the investigation is ongoing and would not comment on who may have planted the potentially fraudulent forms.

NPR has previously reported that paid canvassing operations sometimes involved the capture of false signatures.

Friday’s announcement followed that of officials in Pennsylvania Bucks County said a false video of county election workers destroying ballots was circulating on social media on Thursday. And that was the case across the country in Mesa County, Colorado on Thursday we learned about another isolated incident: An investigation into alleged voter fraud involving more than a dozen ballots.