Pennsylvania county gives update on probe of suspicious applications, says 17 percent are fraudulent

Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino on Monday updated voters on an investigation into 2,500 suspicious voter registration forms that were flagged to the county's elections board last month, confirming that 17% of the forms so far are fraudulent.

A total of four Pennsylvania counties are investigating possible fraudulent voter and mail-in ballot applications in the final spin into Election Day. Those counties are Cambria County, Lancaster County, Monroe County, and York County. York and Lancaster both uncovered thousands of potentially fraudulent applications, while Cambria and Monroe saw less than 50 each. 

D'Agostino said the majority of the suspicious forms in Lancaster County have been cleared, with 57% confirmed as valid voter registration applications. Another 26% are still under investigation because they are incomplete or unverified, and 17% were confirmed as fraudulent.

"Those other two buckets are going to change, quite frankly, based on the continuing investigation," D’Agostino said of the applications still being reviewed, per Fox News. He also called the operation of vetting the applications a "painstaking process."

Some of the forms that have been confirmed as fraudulent contained correct personal information such as the right address, phone, date of birth, driver’s license, and social security number, but the person on the application said they did not request the form, did not complete the form, and verified that the form contained a someone else's signature.

It is not clear how long the rest of the investigation will take, but people who have been impacted by the investigation have been notified. The fraudulent and suspicious forms are not been limited to one specific party.

"While we will not be divulging sensitive information about these investigations, we want to clarify that the investigations regard voter registration forms, not ballots," Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry said last week. "These attempts have been thwarted by the safeguards in place in Pennsylvania ... The investigations are ongoing, and offenders who perpetrated acts of fraud will be held accountable under the law."

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.