Voter registration fraud probe involving 2500 applications confirmed by Pa. election officials

A region successful nan pivotal battleground of Pennsylvania is investigating astir 2,500 elector registration forms that were flagged for imaginable fraud, Pennsylvania’s Department of State confirmed to Fox News Digital connected Friday.

The agency confirmed it has been successful interaction pinch Lancaster County since past week, aft it reported receiving 2 abstracted batches of apparently fraudulent elector registration forms. 

"Suspected fraudulent elector registration forms were dropped disconnected astatine nan Board of Elections Office successful 2 batches astatine aliases adjacent nan deadline for submission," nan committee said successful a connection Friday. 

Both nan section District Attorney’s agency and nan Lancaster County Board of Elections are moving to reappraisal and vet nan applications.

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In a connection Friday, region predetermination officials said nan concerns were first noted "during nan staff's normal process to reappraisal and participate applications into [a Pennsylvania database] and rule enforcement was alerted.

The forms marked arsenic suspicious either had mendacious names, duplicative handwriting, aliases unverifiable aliases incorrect identifying information, they added-- prompting region predetermination officials to instantly notify some nan Pennsylvania Department of State and nan authorities lawyer general’s agency and unfastened a criminal investigation. 

Speaking astatine a property convention Friday, Lancaster County officials urged calm and stressed that nan predetermination strategy did what it was intended to do successful preventing fraud. The applications were not constricted to a azygous party, and were collected successful various spots crossed nan county.

"The truth of nan matter is, we’ve contained this," Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino, a Republican who chairs nan region predetermination board,, told reporters.  "This is not right. It’s illegal. It’s immoral. And we recovered it, and we’re going to return attraction of it."

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Ultimately, he said, "the people of Lancaster County tin beryllium assured successful really we behaviour our elections." 

The Pennsylvania Department of State applauded Lancaster County Friday "for their diligent activity successful spotting this imaginable fraud and bringing it to nan attraction of rule enforcement."

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"As nan county’s efforts show, aggregate safeguards beryllium to guarantee nan integrity of our elections, and Pennsylvanians tin person assurance that this November’s predetermination will beryllium safe, secure, free, and fair," nan agency told Fox News.

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