{"id":2359743,"date":"2024-10-25T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lancaster-county-identifies-suspected-voter-registration-fraud-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:04:08","slug":"lancaster-county-identifies-suspected-voter-registration-fraud-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lancaster-county-identifies-suspected-voter-registration-fraud-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster County identifies suspected voter registration fraud &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flancaster-county-identifies-suspected-voter-registration-fraud-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2359743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Officials in \u2064Lancaster County, \u2062Pennsylvania, have identified \u2063approximately\u200b 2,500 potentially fraudulent \u200bvoter\u2063 registration applications as the November elections approach. The local Board of Elections announced \u200bthat these forms were submitted \u2064just\u2064 before the registration deadline,\u2064 raising suspicions during routine checks due \u2064to issues such as duplicate handwriting, inaccurate addresses, and unverifiable identification numbers. County Commissioner Ray D&#8217;Agostino emphasized that eligible \u2064voters will not be turned away and that\u200d state authorities have\u200b been informed of the situation. The\u200c elections staff and the district\u200b attorney&#8217;s office are currently evaluating\u2062 the \u200bextent of\u200b the fraud.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Lancaster County identifies suspected fraudulent voter registration applications<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1845024\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Officials in Lancaster County, <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, have announced that they have identified &ldquo;as many as 2,500 completed voter registration forms&rdquo; as being possibly fraudulent, less than two weeks before the hotly contested November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"election\">election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>A Lancaster County Board of Elections spokesman said in a Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/lancastercountypa.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?aid=2212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"news release\">news release<\/a> that elections staff and the district attorney&rsquo;s office are &ldquo;assessing the nature and volume of the fraud.&rdquo; The suspected instances of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sheriff-of-arizona-county-featured-in-2000-mules-documentary-announces-voter-fraud-investigations\/\" title=\"Sheriff of Arizona County Featured in \u201c2000 Mules\u201d Documentary Announces Voter Fraud Investigations\">fraudulent voter registration forms<\/a> came from two batches that were dropped off &ldquo;at or near&rdquo; the Board of Elections office around the Monday registration deadline for the election, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anna-wintour-caves-to-woke-mob\/\" title=\"Anna Wintour Caves to Woke Mob\">staff members raised concerns<\/a> during the normal application review process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3196929\/turnout-tracker-where-ballots-cast-early-2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TURNOUT TRACKER: WHERE BALLOTS HAVE BEEN CAST EARLY IN THE 2024 ELECTIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D&rsquo;Agostino said at a Friday press conference that some of the problems detected with the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">voter registration forms included duplicate handwriting<\/a> and signatures, unverifiable or inaccurate addresses, driver&rsquo;s license numbers, and Social Security numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to stress this, no eligible voter will be turned away,&rdquo; D&rsquo;Agostino said, noting that state officials have been notified of the suspected fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said at the press conference that an investigation into the potentially fraudulent applications is underway.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At this point, we have confirmed violation of our crimes code, as well as our elections code,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;We have all available detectives working on this. We are all hands on deck so that we can properly assess the validity of these applications in a timely manner.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania is widely viewed as one of the key states for former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to win the race for the White House. Trump won the state in 2016, while Joe Biden defeated him in the state in 2020 on his way to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Lancaster County voted for Trump over Biden by about 15 percentage points, while in 2016, county voters voted for Trump over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by an even wider margin.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Cook Political Report<\/em> has rated the Keystone State a toss-up, and both campaigns have planned several events in the state in the closing days of the race to woo Pennsylvanians. Trump leads Harris in the <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> polling average in the state, 48.3%-47.7%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1845024\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1845024\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancaster County, PA, flags up to 2,500 potentially fraudulent voter registrations ahead of the November election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2359744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lancaster-county-voter-registration-fraud.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32644,43747,32645,6431],"class_list":["post-2359743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-election-integrity","tag-lancaster-county","tag-voter-fraud","tag-voter-registration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lancaster-county-voter-registration-fraud.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}