Swing-state county reports thousands of suspected fraudulent voter-registration forms

PITTSBURGH — Lancaster County officials announced an investigation Friday aft predetermination workers recovered immoderate 2,500 elector applications they fishy are fraudulent.

Two batches of applications were dropped disconnected past infinitesimal astatine nan region elections agency to meet Pennsylvania’s Oct. 21 voter-registration deadline, officials reported astatine a Friday news conference.

District Attorney Heather Adams said investigators recovered problems pinch 60% of nan voter-registration forms they’ve reviewed truthful far, including incorrect addresses, mendacious recognition information, mendacious names and names that don’t lucifer Social Security information.

“It appears to beryllium an organized effort,” Adams said, noting 1 aliases 2 organizations that conducted caller county-registration drives were responsible for nan applications.

“Concerns were raised during nan staff’s normal process to reappraisal and participate applications into nan Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors System and rule enforcement was alerted,” region predetermination officials said.