There's Something Fishy Going on in PA

A mass voter fraud scheme allegedly involving fraudulent registration forms across multiple Pennsylvania counties was thwarted in the lead-up to Election Day. Local officials are pointing to a Democrat-aligned firm from Arizona run by a Kamala Harris supporter as the culprit orchestrating it.

Monroe County Following a routine review of voter registration applications and mail-in ballot requests, the Monroe County Board of Elections identified approximately 30 "irregular" forms, the county's district attorney, Mike Mancuso, a Democrat, announced

Several of these suspicious forms were found to be fraudulent "as they were not authorized by the persons named as applicants," Mancuso wrote in Tuesday's post. On at least one form, the named applicant was, in fact, deceased.

Of the fraudulent voter registration forms, some were traced back to a specific person.

A company called "Field + Media Corps," a subsidiary of the "minority-owned" Fieldcorps and an Arizona-based organization operating out of Lancaster County, was responsible for submitting the forms in question to county officials, Mancuso revealed.

Field + Media Corps, whose "voter outreach" work has been flagged before by Arizona authorities, is a consulting firm that has worked with a long list of Democratic, left-wing, and anti-Trump outfits. Per Open Secrets, Fieldcorps' funding comes from progressive groups like Living United for Change in Arizona, which seeks to "advance social, racial, and economic justice."

Since the DA's announcement, Mancuso provided an update Friday night disclosing that additional fraudulent applications were found.

As of Friday, 27 documents have been referred to the DA's office by the elections board. Of those referrals, 21 were mailed to Monroe County by Fieldcorps. Out of the Fieldcorps applications, 16 were flagged as fraudulent for forged signatures, often with incorrect or incomplete identifying information.

About half of the counterfeits are connected to individual employees of Fieldcorps whose names were listed on the fraudulent forms as "assisting" in their completion.

Concerning the six non-Fieldcorps applications, two are actually mail-in ballots that were allegedly stolen in unsuccessful attempts to cast them, Mancuso stated. The other three remain under investigation.

Mancuso said the investigation is ongoing and that a broader probe into Fieldcorps' alleged involvement is underway.

Francisco Heredia, CEO and partner of Field + Media Corps as well as the Democratic vice mayor of Mesa, Arizona, where its parent company is headquartered, released a statement reacting to the revelations. "We are proud of our work to help expand access to voting through our nonpartisan voter registration program," Heredia said. "We have not been contacted by election officials in PA counties and we have no additional information on the alleged problematic registration forms."

"We would hope that if Field+Media Corps were the subject of any active investigation, that we would be proactively contacted by the appropriate officials," he continued. "If we are contacted, we will work with local officials to help resolve any discrepancies to allow eligible people to vote."

Heredia added that Field + Media Corps is trying to connect with Monroe County election officials, but reiterated that he received no information regarding the incident and had heard about the company being mentioned in media reports.

Founded in 2017, Field + Media Corps specializes in strategic media and field work for clients, including voter registration campaigns, door-to-door canvassing, advancing ballot measures, phone banking, and texting voters. Along with Arizona, the firm additionally hires political canvassers in Pennsylvania, Nevada, and California, its jobs page said.

Harmeet K. Dhillon...The people allegedly behind these illegal PA registrations— Fieldcorps — have been paid more than $2.9M by Arizona Democrats alone so far this year, and hundreds of thousands by Mi Familia Vota, Democrats’ favorite vehicle for court challenges to tear down AZ voter protections!

Lancaster, York, Monroe, and Cambria Counties in Pennsylvania are investigating an alleged voter fraud scheme.

Heredia, a pro-Harris voting activist who owns a commercial print shop, confirmed to VoteBeat that his company worked in Pennsylvania for more than five months leading up to the registration deadline and submitted voter forms about every other week.

He previously served as national field director for Mi Familia Vota, which aims to increase left-leaning Latino votes and grant citizenship status to illegal immigrants.

Heredia has been a councilman in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb of about a half million people, since 2017. He was reelected in July. Before joining the council, he was for years a leader of Mi Familia Vota, a prominent Latino voter advocacy group, according to his LinkedIn profile. For a short period in 2017, he was the community relations manager for the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office.

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.

Taylor said that Maricopa County prosecutors took the lead on investigating, because the forms were initially submitted there before being sent on to Navajo and Mohave. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office confirmed the office opened a related investigation, but was unable to immediately provide more detail.

Asked about the Pennsylvania and Arizona investigations, Heredia said the company trains workers to fill out forms accurately. When asked about the characterization of some submitted forms as fraudulent, Heredia said Field+Media Corps has a zero tolerance policy for workers who submit fraudulent forms.

He said the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office contacted his company last year in connection with an investigation into two canvassers the company employed. Field+Media Corps fired those two workers, Heredia said.

Clients or past clients of Field+Media Corps in Arizona include several prominent Arizona voter advocacy groups, including LUCHA, Chispa AZ, and CPLC Action Fund, according to the company’s website.

This election cycle, the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office has flagged FieldCorps, the parent company of Field+Media Corps, for submitting a high percentage of incomplete or inaccurate forms, office spokesperson Sierra Ciaramella confirmed Wednesday.

Heredia said that he is in regular contact with the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, and has been for years, since he began doing this work in Arizona. He said that he is open to ways that the company can turn in more accurate forms and that his company has a good working relationship with the county.

Monroe County's director of elections and voter registration, Sara May-Silfee, recounted to the Pocono Record how she first discovered discrepancies across a few forms received earlier in October. "When they came in, we opened them, and we realized that were from June, July, August, September," said May-Silfee. "I realized they were dated months before, and really, you shouldn't be holding registration that long."

So, her staff ran the suspect forms through the state's system. They then realized that a lot of the applicants had listed broken and fractured hands and arms as reasons why another person filled out the application on their behalf. Some also had the same witness.

After systematically cross-checking them, "obviously they all bounced back for bad Social Security numbers. The phone numbers — we're trying to call the people — they weren't correct,” said May-Silfee. "One was an address in the middle of the field in Kunkletown. Another was somebody who was marked in the system deceased."

Investigators from the attorney general's office are in regular contact and working closely with Mancuso's department.

Monroe County used to be a Republican stronghold. However, Barack Obama, the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the county since Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide in 1964, flipped Monroe County blue. In recent years, party registration has leaned left, thanks largely to the migration of former New York City residents flocking from the northeast. Now, no-party voters (125,977) reportedly outnumber registered Republicans in the county (125,010). Meanwhile, most of the county's party-affiliated registrants are Democrats (205,314).

York County's elections office also recently received "a large delivery containing thousands of election-related material" from the third-party organization, according to the York-licensed FOX 43. Field + Media Corps allegedly made the delivery on behalf of the Everybody Votes Campaign, a Soros-tied voter mobilization group that aims to expand voting access for "communities of color."

"It's not unusual to get large stacks of voter registrations or large stacks of requests for mail-in ballots. It's just this was an overabundance of registrations from one particular organization," York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler said.

Wheeler stressed: "We're in a phase now where we need to do our homework before we go and make accusations when we don’t have the data to back it up."

Right now, election officials are ensuring the authenticity of all of the submitted forms, she said. If fraud is suspected, the district attorney will be alerted accordingly to conduct an investigation. "We will have no further comment until our internal review has been completed," Wheeler stated.

To date, nearly half (47 percent) of the 3,087 flagged forms were ultimately approved while roughly 740 forms were referred to the York County district attorney's office for "further analysis," WITF reports. The county is seeking additional information from applicants on about 890 forms.

The York County chief prosecutor's office said it's in constant contact with the election officials regarding any potential irregularities.

This situation comes after York, a Republican-majority county, allegedly sent at least 421 mail-in ballots to the incorrect postal addresses. Election hawks, however, suspect that this number of misplaced mail-in ballots is more likely in the thousands.

Republican registration in York County currently beats Democrats by about 71,400 signatures. This lead indicates that Donald Trump will outpoll Kamala Harris locally, like in 2020, when Trump won York County by better than a three-to-one vote, The York Daily Record reports. Over the past 40 years, the county's conservatives have continuously out-registered progressives.

In neighboring Lancaster County, election officials announced they're investigating approximately 2,500 potentially fraudulent voter registration applications linked to a "large-scale canvassing operation" that's been largely focused on Lancaster since June, but did not initially identify the organization behind it.

The batch of last-minute submissions, arriving shortly before Pennsylvania's registration deadline, allegedly contained false names, questionable signatures, mismatched Society Security numbers, incorrect addresses, and other discrepancies, such as suspicious handwriting, though some of the forms were deemed legitimate later on.

"It appears to be an organized effort at this point, but of course, it's an ongoing investigation and we'll be looking into who participated and how far up it goes," Lancaster County DA Heather Adams, a Republican, remarked at an October 25 press conference.

Adams did not say who dropped off the forms or whom they may have been working with. Of the applications that have been investigated so far, about 60 percent were found to be possibly fraudulent, Adams said. The other applications were verified as accurate and are being processed as normal.

"The fact of the matter is we've contained this," said Lancaster Commissioner Ray D'Agostino, a Republican who chairs the county's election board. "This is not right. It's illegal. It's immoral. And we found it, and we're going to take care of it."

According to Lancaster Online, election officials eventually connected the registration applications under review to two paid canvassing organizations that recently conducted registration drives in the county, noting that they were active in two other Pennsylvania counties as well. However, they didn't name those responsible or the other counties targeted. Details are still limited.

The canvassing was part of a paid effort wherein the canvassers were employed and paid to obtain voter registrations, Adams said. A job posting for a Fieldcorps "political canvasser" says the $20-per-hour temporary gig requires little to no experience.

The reliably Republican county has only ever voted for a Democrat seeking the presidency once (Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964) since James Buchanan in 1856, a resident of the city of Lancaster.

The Pennsylvania State Department issued a statement saying it's aware of the allegations of voter registration fraud in Lancaster County and is offering support. Pennsylvania's Republican Secretary of State Al Schmidt also addressed the investigation via a virtual media update: "We still don't have a lot of details about these implications so it's important to not rush to judgment. We hope for a speedy and accurate conclusion to the investigation."

Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry, a Democrat, said in a press release: "While we will not be divulging sensitive information about these investigations, we want to clarify that the investigations regard voter registration forms, not ballots. These attempts have been thwarted by the safeguards in place in Pennsylvania. We are working every day with our partners to ensure a fair, free, and safe election." She promised that "offenders who perpetrated acts of fraud will be held accountable under the law."

Suspicious voter registration forms in Pa linked to latino Arizona elected official’s company
Field+Media Corps is run by Mesa’s Francisco Heredia, a longtime latino 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.

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.

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

Voter registration fraud investigations point to Arizona group with ties to left-leaning latino business
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 that registers voters across 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,
<><>committing fraud by inventing fake people
<><>making mistakes on voter registration applications.
<><>sending Voter registration applications to the wrong place
<><>failing to send voter apps,
<><>all depends on how the collectors are paid,
<><>Sometimes they just get a name and signature on the apps,
<><>they “don’t make it into the voter registration office.”
<><>Some states pay workers per voter registration application,
<><>the incentive to pump out as many as they can increases voter fraud.

Francisco Heredia under scrutiny for voter registration 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 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.

Let me predict the Enemedia response:

These controversial claims of illegal registrations are baseless rumors. They are unfounded, and unsubstantiated. This is sweeping and systemic disinformation. These sorts of spurious accusations defy the reality on the ground. These claims have been debunked, refuted, and completely put to rest. No credible evidence exists to support these shaky assertions, and numerous fact-checkers have marked these allegations as FALSE. Based on the reports of these fact-checkers alone, there is no further need to investigate these outlandish claims. They have been thoroughly discredited and contradicted. Continuing to push these far-fetched conspiracies, in the form of Russian lies, is sedition.

Fieldcorps-—a latino-centric company-—— is behind the illegal PA voter registrations:
<><>Eduardo Sainz is listed as a FieldCorps member on Az Corporation Commission documents.
<><>Fieldcorps has been paid more than $2.9M by Arizona Democrats alone so far this year,
<><>$$hundreds of thousands were paid out by “Mi Familia Vota,” whose ntl field director is Heredia
<><>”Mi Familia Vota,” is Dems’ much-used vehicle to tear down AZ voter protections via the courts
<><>About half of the counterfeits are connected to individual employees of Fieldcorps
<><>employees’ names were brazenly listed on fraudulent forms as “assisting” in their completion.
<><>of six non-Fieldcorps applications, two are mail-in ballots that were allegedly stolen
<><>three forms remain under investigation.
<><>a broader probe into Francisco Heredia’s Fieldcorps involvement is underway.

Francisco Heredia, CEO and partner of Field + Media Corps is the Democratic vice mayor of Mesa, Az, where its parent company is headquartered.

Heredia released a statement reacting to the revelations cynically cloaking the alleged voter fraud under the guise of increasing latino votes.

“We are proud of our work to help expand access to voting through our nonpartisan voter registration program,” Heredia said. “We have not been contacted by election officials in PA counties and we have no additional information on the alleged problematic registration forms.”

“We would hope that if Field+Media Corps were the subject of any active investigation, that we would be proactively contacted by the appropriate officials,” he continued. “If we are contacted, we will work with local officials to help resolve any discrepancies to allow eligible people to vote.”
Heredia added that Field + Media Corps is “trying to connect” with Monroe County election officials.

Founded in 2017, Heredia’s profitable company, Field + Media Corps specializes in strategic media and field work for clients, including
<><>voter registration campaigns,
<><>door-to-door canvassing,
<><>advancing ballot measures, phone banking,
<><>and texting voters which could involve electronic fraud.

Along with Arizona, Heredia’s profitable company, Field + Media Corps, additionally hires political canvassers in Pennsylvania, Nevada, and California, its jobs page said.

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Fishy incompetence already on display on election day in PA.

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Brandon 🇺🇸🥓🥃
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Standing in line at my polling place. Poll worker just came out and announced that Allegheny County didn’t send the necessary paperwork for one of the 2 districts at this polling location and one of the necessary officials hasn’t shown up yet. They’re separating the 2 districts and allowing 1 district to vote.

This is unacceptable.
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They’re encouraging people to use provisional ballots if they don’t want to wait. The shenanigans have begun…
Brandon 🇺🇸🥓🥃
@Brash_1

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We’re now being told the County didn’t send the poll book and they can’t start voting until they have it.
Brandon 🇺🇸🥓🥃
@Brash_1

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Just been informed the elections judge for our district didn’t show up. Poll workers have called the county 6 times since 6:15 a.m. and have yet to receive a callback.

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