About 2,500 voter registration forms were dropped off in two volumes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in order to check whether they were false.
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According to Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams, “numerous programs appeared to have the same writing and other details, such as addresses, appeared inappropriate on some applications,” according to a statement from the district attorney for Lancaster County.
The supposedly fictitious registrations were a part of a paid fundraising campaign. The staffers are typically paid based on the number of licenses they receive. According to Adams, the “fraudulent” licenses were portion of a “large-scale fundraising activity” dating up to June.
Paid canvassers frequently use false applications to bolster their enrollment numbers. Most, like these, are simply caught. These campaigners are no legal schemers.
It’s not known at this time who the canvassing firms are and for what purpose they were canvassing.
Near the state elections office’s deadline of Monday, according to county officials, there were a lot of dubious voter registration applications dropped down. An analysis by the district attorney’s office found wrong addresses, false identification details, fake names and titles that did not match Social Security information.  ,
The county’s leaders claimed that the applications were handled by one or two organizations that had run registration drives in the region recently. They did not name the agencies.
The district attorney did not disclose the source of the canvassers ‘ funding, but instead directed anyone with information about cautious licenses to her office.  ,
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” We have confirmed violations of our elections script and offences code. We have a team of police at our disposal to work on this. We have all got one hand in a row, according to Adams, who believes it is necessary to quickly determine the validity of these programs.
After an initial research, it was determined that about 60 % of the programs were false, with some genuine subscription forms mixed in. According to Adams, legitimate licenses will typically be processed.
Somewhat suggests that the fraudulent forms were n’t only submitted by individual campaigners.
The work to post the phony voter registration forms “appears to be an organized effort at this point,” Adams said.
” But of course, it’s an ongoing research and we’ll get looking into who simply participated it and how far up it goes”, she said.
When WGAL columnist Barbara Barr inquired about the possible involvement of Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino:”…
” I may claim it, it does not look at this point. It, it does n’t seem that it’s any one party. In some cases, they’re registering in various functions. In some cases, they’re simply changing an solve or at least appearing to change an target”.
Adams continued that it would n’t really matter which party a voter was registering with in a general election. She claimed that the possibility of voting fraud was increased because there were no sham filings at all.
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Lancaster County used to be strongly Democrat, but as the state has diversified, it now only leans GOP.  ,
It does n’t appear that either party is to blame.
” I may say it, it does not look at this point. It does n’t seem that it’s any one party. In some cases, they’re registering in various functions. In some cases, they’re simply changing an solve or at least appearing to change an tackle”, said Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino.