Lancaster County Pennsylvania Commissioners, who even make up the state board of elections, announced Friday they are investigating 2, 500 voting registration software for potential scams. According to Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams, at least 60 % of the programs investigated so far have been flagged as false.
According to Adams, the state believes these fictitious programs are a result of a “large-scale” procedure that has been going on since June, and two more Pennsylvania counties have been conducting similar investigations. She declined to name the various counties, saying they could choose to label themselves.
The county did not name the group ( or groups ) that have been canvassing areas to get people to vote, and the voter registration applications came in two large batches from those groups.
” We are also investigating who is behind this”, Adams said.  ,
The deadline to register to cast a ballot in Pennsylvania was October 21. The region received the batches of registration applications that contained false information on or near the date.
” Software in in these volumes are going through an extensive multi-step evaluation process, including the district attorney’s office for further inspection, as warranted”, Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino said in a press conference. This includes issues with duplicate writing that matches another voting registration forms in batches, uneven signatures with the SURE System record because many of them are duplicates, unprovable and/or false addresses, false driver’s license or Social Security number of verification, among others.
The Attorney General’s Office and the Pennsylvania Department of State have received notification.
Lancaster’s general secretary of votes contacted Adams on Tuesday, Oct. 22, to review potential false voter registration software.
Staff members noticed that many applications appeared to have the same writing, were filled out on the same day with mysterious signatures, and some were already registered voters, and the signatures on folder did not match the names on the application, according to Adams.
According to Adams, state police immediately became aware of the deceptive nature of some of the licenses. Some programs had precise details, but the people whose knowledge was listed on the types said they had no requested, filled out, or signed the software. Other items contained false information, such as fake identification numbers or names that did n’t match the names provided.  ,
” At this point, it is believed that the fraudulent voter registrations are connected to a large-scale canvassing operation ] ] for voter registrations that date back to June, however, the majority of the applications received are dated August 15 and after”, Adams said. ” Those who canvassed for voter registrations were employed and paid to obtain voter registration software. People of Lancaster received the majority of the software. However, software were likewise received from people in Columbia, Elizabethtown, Mount Joy, Akron, Ephrata, Stevens, Strasburg, as well as other places across Lancaster County”.
These votes relate to the voter registration campaigning that took place “at shopping centres, parking lots of food retailers and businesses, sidewalks and parks,” according to the report.
Police found some programs are reasonable. Application processing is being done, according to D’Agostino, “applications that have gone through this considerable review and analytical process and are not being deemed false are being processed.” ” No available voter may be turned aside”, he said.
Some of the 2,500 subscription requests are still being investigated by county detectives, according to Adams, and they were scheduled to finish it on Friday. Of those investigated, her company determined that 60 percent are false. She did not a grant number surrounding this details, saying it is an continuous research.
According to Adams,” We are aware of at least two other regions that are now being looked into” for software similar to those that are being received. ” At this point, we have confirmed that we have violated both our elections and our acts script.”
Cambria County made a related research public last week that was triggered by 21 erroneous voter registrations. The conditions were identical. They are not companions. Lancaster and Cambria, two counties, are located 181 miles off.
Find the , Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office, if everyone in Lancaster County believes their personal information was used without their knowledge on one of these registration applications.
Beth Brelje covers The Federalist’s votes coverage. She is an award-winning analytical columnist with years of internet experience.