Trump plants seeds for challenging Pennsylvania election results – Washington Examiner

Former President Donald Trump took to social media this week to lambaste claims of voter fraud in two Pennsylvania counties in the closing days of the 2024 election cycle.

“Wow! York County, Pennsylvania, received THOUSANDS of potentially FRAUDULENT Voter Registration Forms and Mail-In Ballot Applications from a third party group,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday evening. “This is on top of Lancaster County being caught with 2600 Fake Ballots and Forms, all written by the same person.”

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He followed up with another Truth Social post on Tuesday praising officials for responding to voter fraud threats.

“Law Enforcement is all over the GREAT Commonwealth of Pennsylvania looking at, and for, VOTER FRAUD!” Trump wrote.

The former president was alluding to last week’s announcement from officials in Lancaster that they have identified “as many as 2,500 completed voter registration forms” as being possibly fraudulent.

Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said during a Tuesday press conference that his office “has been in touch with these counties from the very beginning to provide guidance to them as they conduct their investigations, and we’ll continue to support them as needed,” according to the York Daily Record. “Ultimately, the county election offices and the investigative law enforcement agencies will determine whether any criminal charges are warranted.”

Yet Trump’s claims could lay the groundwork for his campaign and allies to challenge the results from the Keystone State if he loses the state next week repeating his 2020 claims of election interference that were tossed out by courts.

On Monday, the Republican National Committee asked the Supreme Court to intervene to block voters whose mail-in ballots have been rejected from casting a provisional ballot. Last week, the state’s high court ruled that voters whose mail-in ballots were disqualified due to errors involving a “secrecy” envelope could still vote on Election Day.

“When the legislature says that certain ballots can never be counted, a state court cannot blue-pencil that clear command into always,” the RNC wrote in the filing.

The RNC also sent a letter to Schmidt on Monday pressuring him to protect the right to vote after voters in the state reported that some polling sites were closing early or not accepting any more voters or that mail-in ballots were not being counted.  

“With only eight days until Election Day, Pennsylvanians across the commonwealth deserve every option available to exercise their civic duty,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. “But voters are being turned away, given faulty information, and told their ballots will not be counted. This is nothing short of voter suppression, and we demand immediate action to ensure every legal vote can be cast and counted properly.”  

The state’s high court did not take up the RNC and state GOP’s case after it sued all 67 county boards of election and the secretary of the commonwealth challenging the “curing” policy, which notified and allowed Pennsylvanians who cast mail-in ballots to fix errors.

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In a separate non-RNC-backed lawsuit, a federal judge ruled against six Pennsylvania congressional Republicans’ lawsuit asking that overseas ballots be segregated.

The lawsuits from the RNC and Trump campaign in multiple battleground states could cast doubt on another presidential election, but the GOP claims its election integrity unit is focused on making sure election officials follow the law.

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