At least three counties in Pennsylvania are reportedly investigating application irregularities amid early voting in the critical battleground state, prompting former President Donald Trump to ask “WHAT IS GOING ON IN PENNSYLVANIA???”
Lancaster County officials announced in a news conference Friday that they are investigating two large batches of voter registration forms that are suspected of being fraudulent.
During the news conference, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams (R) said many of the 2,500 suspect forms appeared to have the same handwriting and were filled out on the same day with unknown signatures. Adams said she was aware of two other counties investigating application irregularities.
York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler (R) issued a statement on Friday saying that the local elections and voter registration office had also received a large delivery of election-related materials, and officials were carefully processing them.
“We are committed to ensuring the integrity, safety and security of our elections. The York County Office of Elections and Voter Registration has received a large delivery containing thousands of election-related materials from a third-party organization. Those materials appear to include completed voter registration forms, as well as mail-in ballot applications. As with all submissions, our staff follows a process for ensuring all voter registrations and mail-in ballot requests are legal. That process is currently underway. If suspected fraud is identified, we will alert the District Attorney’s Office, which will then conduct an investigation. We will have no further comment until our internal review has been completed.”
In a news release Tuesday morning, the Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus stated: “just yesterday, York County announced it had uncovered thousands of suspected fraudulent registrations and mail ballot applications.”
Wheeler said Tuesday morning that she could not comment on potential criminality pending the investigation and shared the county’s statement:
“The Office of the District Attorney has been in constant contact with the York County Commissioners and York County Board of Elections regarding any potential irregularities they are seeing and observing that may necessitate further investigation by this office. As we have always done, this office will investigate any matter regarding elections that require a criminal investigation and if needed, would prosecute any cases where the evidence is sufficient to support a conviction. Regarding any specific allegations or investigation, it is the policy of this office not to comment on such specific matters but only general operating procedures. Any other questions concerning the operations of elections should be referred to the County Commissioners and/or the Board of Elections.”
Wheeler told reporters that “it’s not unusual to get large stacks of voter registrations or large stacks of requests for mail-in ballots, it’s just that this was an overabundance of registrations from one particular organization.”
During an election news conference on Tuesday, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt (R) addressed the “continuing investigations in Lancaster and York counties into potentially fraudulent voter registration applications.”
“The department has been in touch with these counties from the very beginning to provide guidance to them as they conduct their investigations, and we’ll continue to support them as needed,” he said. “Ultimately, the county election offices and the investigative law enforcement agencies will determine whether any criminal charges are warranted.”
Schmidt addressed the suspected voter registration applications in Lancaster County during the election news conference on Monday.
“We don’t have a lot of details about these applications, so it’s important we not rush to judgment,” he said. “We hope for a speedy and accurate conclusion to the investigation and hearing from the county.”
Trump reacted to the investigations into potential voter fraud on social media.
“Wow! York County, Pennsylvania, received THOUSANDS of potentially FRAUDULENT Voter Registration Forms and Mail-In Ballot Applications from a third party group,” Trump stated on Truth Social and X. “This is on top of Lancaster County being caught with 2600 Fake Ballots and Forms, all written by the same person. Really bad ‘stuff.’ WHAT IS GOING ON IN PENNSYLVANIA??? Law Enforcement must do their job, immediately!!! WOW!!!”
Trump was in Delaware County, Penn. Tuesday afternoon for a business roundtable with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ahead of a 7:00 pm rally in Allentown.
Update:
Elon Musk’s PAC on Tuesday launched an 𝕏 Community focused on exposing voter fraud and election interference. He asked 𝕏 users to post videos and other evidence of election irregularities onto the 𝕏 Election Integrity Community.
“If you are aware of any election integrity issues, please report them to the 𝕏 Election Integrity Community,” Musk posted on X.
What we need is a set of voting standards for Federal elections. They might look something like this: 1) Citizens [18USC661] are solely responsible for timely registration and voting; 2) Mail-in and absentee ballot requests may be received and processed between September 15 and October 20 with completed ballots being received between October 10 and poll closing time on election day; 3) a government issued photo ID will be required of each in-person voter and the voter’s signature on a mail-in/absentee ballot shall be verified under oath {printed on the ballot} by a non-family member; 4) mail-in/absentee ballots shall be processed and counted beginning five calendar days before the date of the election and counting shall be completed at the same time as counting of in-person ballots are completed.
Works for me. But you would probably need to add some considerations for those with physical handicaps.
Alas, the gorgeous Debra Heine is highlighting what I had predicted all along: that massive voter fraud would take place in swing states. I fear that by this time next week, entire boxes with thousands of Harris-Walz mail-in votes will magically appear in critical counties just when Trump seems to have the upper hand. By the time the Republican camp fields its usual half-hearted attempts at rectifying the situation, the media will brand them as sore losers and Harris will be doing her victory laps, with her trademark equine grinning and neighing. And by then, judges will be dragging their feet and even SCOTUS will be reluctant to re-litigate the whole thing.
Between rampant voter fraud and a hyper-corrupt media literally debasing itself to prop up the Harris campaign, our side will have to draw an inside straight to win this election–yes, even in spite of the polls and the much vaunted “momentum.” I give President Trump a 25% chance–no more than that, unfortunately. I’ll happily eat my hat if I’m wrong.
This will not change unless stiff sentences be given to people involved in voter-fraud schemes–I’m talking about 25+ year prison sentences and permanent revocation of the right to vote. And this too will never happen.