The chair of a Pennsylvania county election board updated voters Monday on the status of 2,500 voter registration and mail-in ballot applications that had been flagged last month as potentially fraudulent and prompted a county and statewide investigation in the crucial swing state.
Speaking at a press conference, Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino said that of the 2,500 registration and mail-in ballot applications that had been flagged as suspicious, a 57% majority had been confirmed as valid, and 17% were confirmed to be fraudulent, he said.
The remaining 26% of voter registration applications and mail-in ballot applications are either incomplete or unverified, he said, and remain under investigation.
“Those other two buckets are going to change, quite frankly, based on the continuing investigation,” D’Agostino said of the remaining applications, noting that the process of vetting the applications is a “painstaking process.”
Officials said the applications were marked as suspicious “during the staff’s normal process to review and enter applications into [a Pennsylvania database]” and law enforcement was alerted.
They noted that the forms in question either had false names, duplicative handwriting or unverifiable or incorrect identifying information.
Both the local District Attorney’s Office and the Lancaster County Board of