County In Battleground State Investigating Thousands Of Potentially Fraudulent Voter Registration Forms

Pennsylvania officials launched an investigation after election workers flagged thousands of voter registration forms for potential fraud in one county.

Election officials flagged approximately 2,500 potentially fraudulent voter registration applications in Lancaster County.

According to ABC News, two other counties were alerted to look for similar problems.

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Per ABC News:

The forms arrived at the Lancaster County elections office shortly before the state’s deadline to register this past Monday and were apparently part of a larger effort to sign people up, officials said Friday. Some had false names, suspicious handwriting, questionable signatures, incorrect addresses or other problematic details.

Two other counties “received similar applications” and were notified to check into them, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said at a news conference. She declined to name the other counties.

“It appears to be an organized effort at this point,” said Adams, an elected Republican. “But of course, it’s an ongoing investigation. And we’ll be looking into who exactly participated in it and how far up it goes.”

The set of applications has been segregated during the investigation, preventing ballots from being sent to or cast by people until they are deemed valid. Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes are being fought over as polls indicate the presidential contest in the state is a close race.

BREAKING: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania says it found and stopped a SUSPECTED VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD operation.

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Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams and other officials held a news conference to discuss the findings.

“It appears to be an organized effort at this point,” Adams said.

“But of course, it’s an ongoing investigation. And we’ll be looking into who exactly participated in it and how far up it goes,” she added.

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BREAKING: Lancaster, Pennsylvania officials have BUSTED a large-scale fraudulent voter registration scheme that includes thousands of applications with the same handwriting, fake signatures, false addresses, etc

They discovered the same scheme in other Pennsylvania counties.… pic.twitter.com/xiN320U9jY

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6 ABC reports:

“The fact of the matter is, we’ve contained this,” Lancaster Commissioner Ray D’Agostino, a Republican who chairs the election board, said at the news conference. “This is not right. It’s illegal. It’s immoral. And we found it, and we’re going to take care of it.”

Adams and the county election board members did not say who dropped off the forms or whom they may have been working with.

D’Agostino said the applications were not limited to a single party and had been collected at various spots in Republican-majority Lancaster.

A spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of State said the agency expected to comment about the situation later Friday. The state attorney general’s office, which was also contacted by Lancaster officials, declined to comment.

About 3 in 5 of the applications that have so far been fully investigated have had problems, Adams said. Other applications among the 2,500 have been verified as accurate and are being processed as normal, she said.

President Trump won 57.17% of the vote in Lancaster County in 2020, while Biden tallied 41.34%.

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