A mass voter fraud scheme allegedly involving fraudulent registration forms across multiple Pennsylvania counties was thwarted in the lead-up to Election Day.
Monroe County Following a routine review of voter registration applications and mail-in ballot requests, the Monroe County Board of Elections identified approximately 30 "Irregular" forms, the county's district attorney, Mike Mancuso, a Democrat, announced on Facebook last week.
A company called "Field Media Corps," a subsidiary of the "Minority-owned" Fieldcorps and an Arizona-based organization operating out of Lancaster County, was responsible for submitting the forms in question to county officials, Mancuso revealed.
"We have not been contacted by election officials in PA counties and we have no additional information on the alleged problematic registration forms." "We would hope that if Field Media Corps were the subject of any active investigation, that we would be proactively contacted by the appropriate officials," he continued.
"If we are contacted, we will work with local officials to help resolve any discrepancies to allow eligible people to vote." Heredia added that Field Media Corps is trying to connect with Monroe County election officials, but reiterated that he received no information regarding the incident and had heard about the company being mentioned in media reports.
For a short period in 2017, he was the community relations manager for the Maricopa County Recorder's Office.
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office confirmed the office opened a related investigation, but was unable to immediately provide more detail.
Monroe County's director of elections and voter registration, Sara May-Silfee, recounted to the Pocono Record how she first discovered discrepancies across a few forms received earlier in October.
Barack Obama, the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the county since Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide in 1964, flipped Monroe County blue.
Now, no-party voters reportedly outnumber registered Republicans in the county.
Most of the county's party-affiliated registrants are Democrats.
York County York County's elections office also recently received "a large delivery containing thousands of election-related material" from the third-party organization, according to the York-licensed FOX 43.
Field Media Corps allegedly made the delivery on behalf of the Everybody Votes Campaign, a Soros-tied voter mobilization group that aims to expand voting access for "Communities of color." "It's not unusual to get large stacks of voter registrations or large stacks of requests for mail-in ballots. It's just this was an overabundance of registrations from one particular organization," York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler said.
To date, nearly half of the 3,087 flagged forms were ultimately approved while roughly 740 forms were referred to the York County district attorney's office for "Further analysis," WITF reports.
The county is seeking additional information from applicants on about 890 forms.
The York County chief prosecutor's office said it's in constant contact with the election officials regarding any potential irregularities.
Republican registration in York County currently beats Democrats by about 71,400 signatures.
Over the past 40 years, the county's conservatives have continuously out-registered progressives.
Lancaster County In neighboring Lancaster County, election officials announced they're investigating approximately 2,500 potentially fraudulent voter registration applications linked to a "Large-scale canvassing operation" that's been largely focused on Lancaster since June, but did not initially identify the organization behind it.
"The fact of the matter is we've contained this," said Lancaster Commissioner Ray D'Agostino, a Republican who chairs the county's election board.
The reliably Republican county has only ever voted for a Democrat seeking the presidency once since James Buchanan in 1856, a resident of the city of Lancaster.
The Pennsylvania State Department issued a statement saying it's aware of the allegations of voter registration fraud in Lancaster County and is offering support.
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