Posted on 10/21/2020 1:24:31 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The Luzerne County Director of Administrative Services advised on October 8 that they had potential information of voter fraud. The county received an absentee ballot application on September 4, and after referencing the SURE System, the county discovered the applicant is deceased, according to the affidavit.
The application was submitted under the name Marie Hannigan. The Department of Health notified the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections that Hannigan had been deceased since 2015. The affidavit says the signature on the application they received, did not match the signature on Hannigan’s last submitted ballot in 2014.
Detectives were given a list of all registered voters residing at Hannigan’s former address in Forty Fort, where Robert Lynn, Loretta Frawley-Lynn, Richard Lynn, Christopher Lynn and Kerriann Lynn reside or have resided.
Officers went to the Lynn residence and made contact with Robert Lynn. They told Lynn they were conducting an investigation and asked if he was familiar with Marie Hannigan. Lynn told detectives she is his mother. Detectives asked where Hannigan was and Lynn responded “Here.”
One of the detectives informed Lynn that the county received an absentee ballot application under Hannigan’s name, however Hannigan was listed as deceased. Lynn immediately told detectives that she had died 5 years ago.
Detectives informed Lynn that there is an issue at hand, if Hannigan is deceased and someone submitted an absentee ballot application to Luzerne County, claiming that Hannigan is alive.
Lynn began to explain to detective that his mother’s husband’s daughter had caused problems with the family after Hannigan’s death, and may be the source of the false application. According to the affidavit, Lynn grew more nervous when detectives asked him to provide the name of the woman.
According to court papers, a detective then told Lynn he believed he was lying to them. Detectives asked Lynn, “Did you submit the application?” in which Lynn responded saying “Yes.”
Detectives say Lynn told them that he listed on the application that his mother wanted an absentee ballot because she was “visiting her grandkids or something like that.” He added that he knew it was wrong to do but he did it anyway. Lynn admitted to detectives that he forged Hannigan’s signature.
Lynn has been charged with forgery and interfering with primaries/elections.
Party not mentioned. I wonder which it is.......
No mention of him being a Trump supporter means he’s a democrat.
This raises an issue that I’ve wanted addressed for a while.
What if a voter dies after submitting an early ballot for an election, but before Election Day? Should that ballot be counted? Why? If the decisive point in time is Election Day, why would an earlier ballot be allowed if the voter isn’t alive at this decisive point in time?
The same for moving to a new state. What if a resident votes within an “early voting” period, or uses an absentee ballot, and then moves before Election Day to a state which has a very short registration period, or same-day registration, as a lot of leftist States do, allowing them to vote in both States? Who catches this?
An interesting topic to develop.
No voter fraud in PA. Nope, not one bit.
Speaking of Luzerne County I wonder how well Trump is doing there. It’s a bell weather county for PA. Trump won with 58 or 59 percent in 2016.
My Dad would have wanted to vote as a Republican but he died earlier this year in an old folks home. He’s probably voting a straight Dem ticket now.
Exploiting the death of a loved one for politics??? Who does he think he is Joe Biden?
When my sister died in September 2011, I made sure I contacted the Board of Elections for Rochester, NY (Monroe County) to inform them about her death. They asked me to forward a verified copy of her death certificate, which they would return to me. I took care of it right away so the records would be corrected before that’s year’s elections.
I want to know if RBG votes this year ...
Of course she will.
Detectives say Lynn told them that he listed on the application that his mother wanted an absentee ballot because she was “visiting her grandkids or something like that.”
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Something like that
Is this Pennsylvania ???
It’s a start....
I ran into something similar. We had to move out of state onto another. The criteria in the new state for residency was 6 months and it was too late to register to vote in that state. The state I moved from didn’t have enough time to send an absentee ballot, so I couldn’t vote in that state either. We were disenfranchised for that voting season. I was legally entitled to vote in the first state because I was still a legal resident of that state and had registered to vote. We didn’t know well enough in advance that we were going to move and so didn’t make provision for that.
Not only that, she claims she has 48 mothers! (Just kidding I hope.)
California sent a ballot, unrequested, to my mother. She is deep into Alzheimer’s dementia, and is legally incompetent. Repeat her scenario times tens (hundreds?) of thousands across the state. Open invitation to fraud. Supposedly there’s signature verification, but all the unscrupulous relatives, care workers, etc. who will vote these ballots also have access to the ill person’s signature samples.
I find it astounding that there is no mandated coordination among states to limit voters to a single state. It's an ongoing issue with people who own multiple residences or retire in warm climates. New York/Florida is a big overlap.
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