The Lancaster County Board of Elections and the District Lawyer’s Workplace have unveiled a suspected voter registration fraud scheme.
At a press convention scheduled for 11:30 AM within the Commissioners Assembly Room, county officers will element the findings of their investigation and description the steps taken to deal with this severe breach.
Republican County Commissioners Ray D’Agostino, Josh Parsons, and Alice Yoder will be a part of Adams to debate how the alleged fraud was recognized and the implications it could have on the upcoming elections.
In response to preliminary experiences, the two,500 suspicious purposes have been submitted in two giant batches simply earlier than the voter registration deadline.
Learn the press launch:
The Lancaster County Board of Elections – consisting of County Commissioners Ray D’Agostino, Josh Parsons and Alice Yoder – along with Lancaster County District Lawyer Heather Adams, will maintain a press convention on Friday, October 25 at 11:30 AM within the Commissioners Assembly Room positioned on the seventh ground of the Lancaster County Authorities Constructing.
Board of Elections employees members recognized and contained incidents of voter registration fraud. Elections employees and the District Lawyer’s workplace are at the moment assessing the character and quantity of the fraud.
Suspected fraudulent voter registration types have been dropped off on the Board of Elections Workplace in two batches at or close to the deadline for submission.
There are roughly 2,500 voter registration purposes whole in these two batches. Issues have been raised in the course of the employees’s regular course of to evaluation and enter purposes into the Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) System and legislation enforcement was alerted.
The Board of Elections and District Lawyer will present an replace on how these purposes have been recognized, remoted, and investigated.
Our Lancaster County Elections system is safe. Our techniques labored. We’ll proceed to function with the best ranges of veracity, integrity, and transparency in order that Lancaster County voters may be assured in our election.
Voters who’ve lately registered to vote are inspired to verify their voter registration on-line and guarantee its accuracy at https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/voterregistrationstatus.aspx.
Livestream may be discovered right here: https://vimeo.com/occasion/1970439
BREAKING! Hundreds of doubtless fraudulent voter registration purposes uncovered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania! pic.twitter.com/BMG3sMjcu2
— True the Vote (@TrueTheVote) October 25, 2024
Simply as Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, uncovers a suspected voter registration fraud scheme, comparable election safety considerations have arisen in Mesa County, Colorado, the place over a dozen mailed ballots have been fraudulently solid earlier than their supposed recipients even had an opportunity to obtain them.
In Colorado, three fraudulent votes have been counted earlier than election officers recognized the tampering.
In Phoenix, Arizona, firefighting crews responded to a fireplace simply exterior a publish workplace close to seventh Avenue and Indian Faculty Street in Phoenix, Arizona. After extinguishing the flames, they delivered roughly twenty electoral ballots, and different mail items have been broken within the blaze.
In Orange County, Florida, ballots with a USPS grasp key have been stolen from mailboxes and discovered at a storm drain.
Fox 35 Orlando reported that the ballots have been taken from mailboxes by an unidentified suspect utilizing an arrow key, also referred to as a grasp key, that was stolen from the USA Postal Service.
A person in Sierra Madre, California uncovered almost a dozen ballots stuffed in a storm drain whereas doing yard work.
