Posted on 08/30/2022 8:46:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Pennsylvania Department of State just changed its voter registration form to include a mail-in ballot application — in the middle of an election cycle.
On Aug. 19, the Department of State combined the originally separate applications — voter registration and mail-in ballot — into one new form just 11 weeks before the general election.
While election officials say the change was made to simplify the process, county election officials are concerned the new form will create chaos and undermine voter confidence.
“We believe this proposed form is likely to stoke new and undue confusion, concern and skepticism among voters at a time when it is imperative that we rebuild trust in our election system,” Bucks County Elections Director Thomas Freitag wrote in a letter sent to the Department of State.
Freitag mentioned that the Department of State didn’t inform counties of this change until about three weeks before and that in his discussions with county officials across Pennsylvania, “the consensus against this move was so resounding that a workgroup was formed to provide meaningful feedback to the State.”
Dauphin County Elections Director Gerald Feaser Jr. echoed Freitag’s sentiments.
“This dramatic change in front-line service of voters with a dual registration/mail-in ballot application so close to a potentially pivotal election is a terrible idea. My concern is based on my experience — and the shared experience of the other 66 election directors across Pennsylvania — since Act 77 of 2019,” Feaser wrote.
Act 77 is the controversial election reform bill Republicans passed in 2019. It brought no-excuse mail-in balloting to Pennsylvania, among other changes.
Voters are also expressing concern about the new form. Lancaster County Elections Director Christa Miller told The Epoch Times that voters are unsure if they are registering to vote or registering for mail-in voting. The new form is now two pages, with the voter registration form on the front and the mail-in ballot application on the back. County officials are worried people registering to vote will be confused because the signature box is right below the mail-in balloting section.
Election officials will now have to process two different actions with one form, in what is sure to amount to a logistical headache. Originally, voter registration and mail-in ballot applications were filed separately, but now counties must process half of the new form first and then make a copy of the mail-in ballot portion and file that second. And election officials are not prepared for it.
“We were flooded with duplicate applications, and irate voters who received a mail-in ballot for the 2020 election who wanted to vote in person and were forced to cast a provisional ballot,” Feaser continued. “We lost large numbers of poll workers because of the threats and anger directed at them by voters who became permanent mail-in voters in error. By rushing this form through, without putting in place appropriate safeguards, the Department is putting political interests ahead of the safety of Pennsylvania’s election workers.”
As long there is “mail-in” voting, people should have NO confidence in the election results.
They continue to nuts around with this mail in bullcr@p to facilitate a steal!
Nauseating already!!!!
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That ship sailed a loooooong time ago!
Leigh Chapman, Acting Secretary of State.
Appointed by Governor Wolf without legislative confirmation.
Previously, Chapman served as executive director of Deliver My Vote. She also held senior leadership positions at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and other non-partisan, non-profit election reform and advocacy organizations.
Drop boxes in Philadelphia where, in 2012, Obama won by 100% to 0% with more votes than registered voters.
I love the Signature or Mark line........make mine an x please......
Even the UN and Jimmy Carter agree mail is the least reliable voting method.
You notice there is NO requirement to prove you are eligible to vote. All you have to do is sign the form. This is done on purpose. It is by design. THEY WANT FRAUD TO OCCUR!
An additional 5 million illegals entered the country in the last 18 months. Just in time to register to vote.
It was very confusing in the last election - I got so many mail-in ‘advertisments’ put out by the RNC and Pacs that it was made to look like you had to vote by mail. It was very deceptive.
That's not an accident, that's a feature. Drive enough election workers away and mail in balloting (counted in secret by deep state employees) becomes the only option.
voter confidence should be destroyed, because US electoral systems are a shambles.
The only thing keeping it up now is the force of political propaganda and media.
Chapman said goal is to engage the estimated 3.2 million eligible Pennsylvanians who chose not to vote in the November 2020 election and make them participate this time around.
Bring it! Requesting mail -in ballots and walking them in to keep the rodents from knowing how many fake ballots they have to manufacture is exactly how Kari Lake won in Arizona. Maricopa County controlled by swamp rinos and aided by rodents actually pulled a Detroit and stopped counting while they tried to figure out what to do. When they could not and counting started back up, Lake won handily.
Joe Kent beat an all mail-in system for voter fraud in rodent controlled Washington State. He kicked out a quisling that voted to impeach Trump.
Kent was endorsed by Trump so if there was ANY way they could have beaten this tactic the rodents would have done it to reward the quisling and embarrass Trump, but thet couldn’t - they too stopped counting for a while but when they came up empty of a way to beat this strategy the rodents folded.
In Virginia Youngkin won by flooding the counting rooms with Republican volunteers. If you add that strategy to the walk in the mail-in ballots we are in great shape in Pennsylvania as well.
Finally, Shrek is the train wreck I have been pointing to for months and HE as a Federal candidate will be at the top of the ballot. As I said, Bring it.
Mail in voting, as practiced in the 2020 election, is unconstitutional and was promoted by Sorros’ bevy of bought-and-paid-for states attorneys general.
Absentee voting is a constitutionally-consistent practice for servicemen, expats, and those out-of-state on election day.
The second is covered by mail fraud laws. That is why the PlanDemic’ers instituted drop boxes whose abuse is not covered by federal mail fraud laws.
Shapiro is on the Sorros side of the issue.
Mastroiano is on the US Constitution side of the issue.
Vote accordingly, and “Hold your schnoz and vote for Oz.”
Vote accordingly, and “Hold your schnoz and vote for Oz.”
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clever
does the PA Leg no longer set election laws?
Whatever else you say or think about them, the stinking communist bastards never quit and never pass up an opportunity to secure their stranglehold on the country...
I seem to remember that when I registered to vote—I had to present ID...IN PErSON.
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