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Lehigh County DA: 'Likely hundreds of instances' where people deposited more than 1 ballot into drop boxes for Nov. 2021 election
https://www.wfmz.com ^ | • Apr. 4, 2022 | Staff

Posted on 04/05/2022 9:27:51 AM PDT by Red Badger

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said Monday there were likely hundreds of instances where people deposited more than one ballot into drop boxes between Oct. 18 and election day, Nov. 2, 2021.

Joe Vichot, Chairman of the Lehigh County Republican Committee, submitted correspondence on Jan. 20., 2022 to Deputy County Solicitor, Sarah Murray, regarding alleged multiple ballots deposited at drop boxes during the 2021 November election, according to a news release from the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office.

On Feb. 1, 2022, the Election Board of Lehigh County through Deputy Solicitor Murray referred the matter to the District Attorney for investigation. Martin said he referred the matter to Chief County Detective Michael J. Millan, who assigned County Detectives Richard G. Heffelfinger, Steven C. Furlong and Robert V. Egan to the investigation.

Based upon the investigation, Martin said he found that there were likely hundreds of instances where people deposited more than one ballot into drop boxes established for receipt of ballots between Oct. 18 and election day, Nov. 2, 2021. Over the time that drop boxes were in place 7,196 ballots were deposited and counted.

Based upon the review by the detectives, at least 288 people deposited more than one ballot in the various drop boxes, all of which were under video surveillance, according to the news release from the DA's office.

This is a violation of the provisions of the Election Code, which require that each voter deposit/deliver only their own ballot.

"Based upon the sampling, it is clear that many more than just those observed deposited more than one ballot," Martin said.

There was only one instance where it appears that more than two ballots were deposited; in that case, either five or six were deposited, Martin said. That person cannot be identified.

Martin said the vast majority of others captured on video depositing their ballots in drop boxes also cannot be identified. More than 14,800 ballots were delivered through the U.S. mail, and no video exists as to these, the DA's office said.

There will be no prosecution brought as a result of the investigation "because to prosecute those few whose identity can be proven would be unfair and unjust given the much larger numbers who cannot be identified and who also deposited multiple ballots," Martin said.

Martin said the complaint of the Lehigh County Republican Committee is well-founded, and that there are hundreds of instances where voters violated the Election Code by submitting more than their own ballot.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
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1 posted on 04/05/2022 9:27:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Watch out for November 2022. It’ll be another blizzard of illegal votes.


2 posted on 04/05/2022 9:30:27 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

3 posted on 04/05/2022 9:30:39 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Red Badger

So if we all rob a bank if they can’t identify everyone, no prosecutions should happen to those they can identify.


4 posted on 04/05/2022 9:31:49 AM PDT by pas
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To: lightman

...’Likely hundreds of instances’...

I’d bet $5 there are a LOT more than that.


5 posted on 04/05/2022 9:31:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Red Badger

Sooo... they’re still cheating, and little being done about it. This is why I do not support the GOP. I support direct to candidates. The GOP does not protect our votes.


6 posted on 04/05/2022 9:32:42 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Red Badger

We could have honest elections if we wanted them.

Neither party wants them.

The Democrats cheated in 2020 — and why wouldn’t they cheat in 2022 or 2024? The thing to look out for: Democrats may cheat and make Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush president — as long as they can be sure that our next Republican president is farther Left than Biden/Harris/Obama.

It’s a fake.


7 posted on 04/05/2022 9:32:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: Red Badger

“baseless claims”


8 posted on 04/05/2022 9:33:27 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Don Corleone

Avalanche...........................


9 posted on 04/05/2022 9:35:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Don Corleone; Red Badger

It’s the cell phone data that is allowing these ballot harvesters to be identified.

But I think we can expect the ballot harvester organizations to wise up. We can’t count on cell phone data in future elections. In the states where we can’t get the ballot boxes shut down, we need surveilance with facial recognition.


10 posted on 04/05/2022 9:35:57 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

We have to guess at the state this is happening?


11 posted on 04/05/2022 9:38:50 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Red Badger

There will be no prosecution brought as a result of the investigation “because to prosecute those few whose identity can be proven would be unfair and unjust given the much larger numbers who cannot be identified and who also deposited multiple ballots,” Martin said.


Excuse me, WHAT?


12 posted on 04/05/2022 9:39:52 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Don Corleone

They also have the mail carriers (and who knows who else) dumping Trump ballots and will do it again, because the republicans have too many assistant democrat commies.

They don’t even need all these illegal votes. They’re trying to burden America with the invaders and make criminals out of everyone who thinks bad thoughts of the left or carries a g.


13 posted on 04/05/2022 9:39:54 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: DannyTN

All the local Republicans have to do is station 3 or 4 people at each drop box and have their cameras out and photograph every person that drops a ballot in. That would discourage the multiple droppers and the bulk droppers.

If the Black Panthers can put guys with clubs and machetes at polling stations we can put guys with cameras at drop box locations.....................................


14 posted on 04/05/2022 9:40:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: VTenigma

IOW, everybody does it...................


15 posted on 04/05/2022 9:40:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: subterfuge

No.................


16 posted on 04/05/2022 9:40:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Funny how they all forgot about the unquestionably illegal usurpation of the legislative power by the executive branch in changing election law


17 posted on 04/05/2022 9:41:25 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: Red Badger
""because to prosecute those few whose identity can be proven would be unfair and unjust given the much larger numbers who cannot be identified and who also deposited multiple ballots," "

huh? prosecuting one criminal would be unfair to all the other criminals?

18 posted on 04/05/2022 9:43:24 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Red Badger

Be careful. Quantity counts. I don’t think dropping a ballot and one for your wife should be suspicious. So how could a 2 ballot drop ever be suspicious?

It’s the real bad guys who poke 20 or a 100 ballots through that are the ones we are after. There is no doubt they exist and I believe in large numbers. But I’ve never seen even one identified let alone interviewed.


19 posted on 04/05/2022 9:43:57 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: Red Badger

My elementary school teacher’s voice is rattling around in my head, something about a bridge.


20 posted on 04/05/2022 9:44:15 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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