The State of Pennsylvania is investigating potential voter-registration fraud after multiple counties reported issues.
The fraud concerns voter-registration applications, not votes themselves. Possibly fraudulent registrations were discovered and have been sent to law enforcement.
“I want to stress these are not ballots that were cast, but rather applications to register to vote,” Pennsylvania’s Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said during an election briefing.
“The Pennsylvania Department of State has been in touch with the county from the very beginning to provide guidance to them as they conduct their review and will continue to support them as needed.”
The problem was identified when election workers raised concerns about two sets of voter-registration applications, because of similarities between them.
Authorities are now examining around 2,500 forms.
York County Commissioner Julie Wheeler issued a statement in which she said that voter registration forms and mail-in ballot applications were among a “large delivery containing thousands of election-related materials” that the county elections office received from a third-party organization.
Many of the applications were clearly not authorized by the persons named as applicants. In at least one case, the applicant is deceased.
An aggregate of recent polls shows Donald Trump with a slim lead over Kamala Harris in the state.
By Sunday, almost a quarter of Pennsylvania’s nine million registered voters had voted.
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