Cambria County, Pennsylvania, has discovered and thrown out 21 false voter registration demands, according to state Solicitor Ronald Repak.
Repak told The Federalist that the demands were received in the mail at the county election office in July. The state mail received all of the demands on the same day, which gave the impression that something was wrong.
Election officials in a state check the voter registration request’s information against state data when they receive it. They match the label on the demand with the last four digits of the Social Security number, or they match the label on the pilot’s license with the last four figures. The Help America Vote Act ( HAVA ) specifies this verification as a prerequisite.
Election officials in Cambria County discovered that there was a problem with each of these voting registration calls. According to Repak, they discovered that the names and numbers provided did not match the directories, and that in some cases the customer had left blank spaces for the Social Security number or driver’s license range, leaving staff members with no figures to meet and no way to verify the requester’s personality. In some cases, there was no name, or the handle did not match the title.
The county informed the applicants ‘ names on the types that it needed more information before registering the customer for election, but none of the 21 applicants responded.
The decision to reject ballot requests may conflict with the ridiculous Pennsylvania Department of State’s crazy order, which states that “it is clear that voter registrations may not be rejected based only on a non-match between the applicants ‘ identifying statistics on their application and the assessment collection figures.”
The law states that “HAVA’s data assessment process was intended to serve as an administrative safeguard” when it comes to maintaining and managing the standard list of registered voters, as opposed to a restriction on voter eligibility.
According to the law,” counties must confirm their procedures adhere to state and federal law, which means that if a voting registration application is rejected and has no other independent grounds to accept it, it must be processed like any other applications,” the law states.
County officials in Cambria County sent the ballots to the county district attorney’s office before they could be verified by the Pennsylvania Department of State, where detectives looked into the voter registration requests further.
Is there any truth to these individuals filing, according to the district attorney’s office, which conducted due diligence for us to learn. and determined that the information was unable to be verified, allowing us to proceed with their application,” Repak said.
No one named by the name on the request was found living at any of the 21 different addresses that the detectives searched for.
Repak believes Cambria County has adhered to the Department of State’s directive by involving the county detectives and reviewing each registration request.
” They say in their guidance, we have to register them unless there’s independent grounds to reject, and in my opinion, that’s why we asked the district attorney’s office to get involved, because I believe this is the independent ground that allows us to make a rejection”.
In Pennsylvania, voters declare a party when they register to vote. These inquiries came from a variety of parties.
Repak said,” I think it was smart of whoever may have done this,” adding that a mix of party requests would lessen suspicion. The 21 requests included 13 Democrats, two Republicans, one Libertarian, and five independents.
Gregory J. Neugebauer, a district attorney for Cambria County, informed The Federalist in an email that he had referred the matter to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.
He also provided the following statement.
The District Attorney’s Office requested assistance from the Cambria County Elections Office in obtaining voter registration information that had been flagged by their office. County detectives visited the addresses provided in the applications and created a report outlining their findings. That was given to the Election Board to assist them in carrying out their duties.
” Everyone in law enforcement is tasked with supporting and defending the Constitution, and protecting our community. When we can assist other agencies in carrying out their duties, we’re happy to do so because that obligation is taken very seriously.  , Election integrity and security is vital to our community, and law enforcement will continue to do our part”.
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Beth Brelje covers The Federalist’s elections coverage. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.