Why Pennsylvania’s unusual voting laws make it ripe for rigged election claims

NBC News | Comcast ^ | November 3, 2024 | By Jane C. Timm

[Oldeconomybuyer]

With Pennsylvania expected to be a close and crucial state in the 2024 race for the presidency, it's unusual election laws are again under the microscope.

First, there's the counting. The state doesn’t have early voting — instead offering the time-consuming and paperwork heavy option of on-demand mail balloting. It also doesn’t process its mail ballots ahead of Election Day.

So, in the hours after polls close on Election Day, when many battleground states will be reporting their early, mail and Election Day totals, Pennsylvania will be counting ballots around the clock in a mad dash to catch up.

Then there's the "fixing" or "curing" of ballots with minor errors, such as a mail-in ballot mixing a signature. If a ballot has errors, each county in the state decides on its own whether it will let voters "fix" them, creating significant differences in voting policy throughout the state. (Most states have a statewide policy for curing ballots.)

And finally, after the ballots are counted, there can be challenges. Pennsylvania laws give residents a spate of ways to challenge and delay certification of the results with recounts, appeals, and litigation.

Election experts say Pennsylvania's laws make it fertile ground for rigged election claims to flourish. They also stressed that there is little reason to believe that unsubstantiated voter fraud claims—and any lawsuits associated with them—will actually stop the certification of the results.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Hope it is at a point when PA starts to count the ballots that the election has already been decided.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Oh, brother...

"...in the hours after polls close on Election Day...Pennsylvania will be counting ballots around the clock in a mad dash to catch up."

That's the way we did voting for over 200 years, but suddenly that old approach does not work any more and it's a "mad dash to catch up." Forking idiot writer.

[janetjanet998]

From what I understand Alleghany county (Pittsburgh) have new faster machines to count mail ins and will drop the results fast

That county has the most mail ins

There is debate if Philly is also using the news faster machines

So PA may start out Blue with an instant mail drop

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"...such as a mail-in ballot mixing a signature"

Yeah, I always have my wife write my first name and I write my last name. But they've never caught my mixed signature. I guess we've been lucky so far.

[mewzilla]

Check out all the changes states have made to their elections laws and/or equipment since 2016.

Not a coinkydink.

And not just in the US, BTW.

[ronnie raygun]

There has to be a way to disqualify these states that play these corrupt games

[Wuli]

What complicates getting to the results and opens more opportunities for fraud are (a) mass mail in balloting, (b) premature voting before election day - and six ways to sunday for that, (c) computerized processes where the fraud is able to be made inside the computer process, and inside the computers hidden from audit, then with all those chances to vote you have (d) unclean voter rolls where the dead, the former residents and zillions of known never-voters are “registered” entities ripe for use by fraudters.

[SunkenCiv]

Partisan Media Shill Spews DNC Talking Points.

[tired&retired]

Shapiro is king of voter fraud. I pray they can catch him this time.

[Fresh Wind]

NPC News/Comcrap

[Liz]

Hard evidence from voter registration application fraud
has stunned officials in the key state of Pennsylvania.

The evidence reveals fraud and collusion by a private for-profit industry——
based in Arizona-—run by a latino voting activist who is an Az elected official.

The for-profit latino company’s tentacles reach far and
wide....registering voters across states and counties.

This has increasingly raised legal concerns.

Vice President Chad Ennis of the “Honest Elections Project (HEP)” says:
<><>third-party voter registration organizations are a problem for many reasons,
<><>calculatedly committing fraud by inventing fake people
<><>deliberately making mistakes on voter registration applications.
<><>sending Voter registration applications to the wrong place
<><>failing to send voter apps,
<><>putting just a name and signature on the apps,
<><>apps “don’t make it into the voter registration office.”
<><>some states pay workers per voter registration application,
<><>the incentive is to pump out as many as they can
<><>this increases voter fraud.

[Liz]

Suspicious voter registration forms in Pa linked to Arizona latino city councilman’s company
Field+Media Corps is run by latino Mesa councilman Francisco Heredia, a longtime Az voting activist
VoteBeat ^ | 10/31/24 | Jen Fifield, Carter Walker
FR Posted on 11/1/2024, 2:55:52 AM by Roadrunner383

Two Pennsylvania counties have identified an Arizona-based company as the source of thousands of last-minute voter registration applications that they are investigating. The company, Field+Media Corps, which conducts voter registration and outreach programs, is run by Francisco Heredia, a Mesa councilman and a longtime voting activist in Arizona.

In Monroe County, around 30 forms the company was “responsible for submitting,” which also included mail ballot applications, were “irregular” and included what the District Attorney’s Office described in a Facebook post as several that were “fraudulent as they were not authorized by the persons named as applicants.” “In at least one example, the named applicant is in fact deceased,” District Attorney Mike Mancuso wrote in the post...

York County Chief Clerk Greg Monskie confirmed to Votebeat Wednesday that Field+Media Corps submitted the forms that the county is investigating.

Latino activist Francisco Heredia, a registered Democrat, runs the company, which conducts voter outreach efforts and registers voters. Heredia did not immediately respond to The Arizona Republic’s request for comment. The Republic could not reach Eduardo Sainz, listed as a member of Field+Media Corps on the Arizona Corporation Commission documents.

Field+Media Corps operates voter registration drives for clients in Arizona, too. Last year, both Navajo and Mohave counties flagged voter registration forms from the company and sent them to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office for investigation, office spokesperson Richie Taylor confirmed to Votebeat Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at votebeat.org ...

[Liz]

Francisco Heredia under investigation for voter fraud.

Heredia earned an undergraduate degree in political science and a master's degree in public administration from Arizona State University. At the time of his political appointment in 2017, Heredia owned his own consulting firm. His professional experience includes work for the Maricopa County Recorder's Office and the U.S. Census Bureau.Heredia has also served as a member of the Chandler Housing and Human Services Commission and the State of Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners.

He is a prominent latino activist, national field director for Mi Familia Vota and One Arizona, the KidsCare outreach coordinator for the Arizona Healthcare Cost Containment System, and a prevention specialist for Chicanos Por La Causa.

[Regulator]

These are the same articles they were writing in 2020 as the Rat plotters primed the media for The Big Steal.

[cuz1961]

someone mention Pennsylvania ? .. ... ( how do vote totals go DOWN ?, Is that a Pennsylvania thing ? ;-) .

[lightman]

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

[kiryandil]

The rigging of Pennsylvania’s “elections” also make it ripe for rigged election claims.

[popdonnelly]

Why don’t they count the early ballots now? They don’t have to publicize the result.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That won’t work — it’s common sense. Doesn’t apply to government.