Cambria County, Pennsylvania, has discovered and thrown out 21 fraudulent voter registration requests, according to county Solicitor Ronald Repak.
The requests were received in the mail at the county election office in July, Repak told The Federalist. The first hint that something was amiss was that the requests all arrived in the county mail on the same day.
When a county receives a voter registration request, election workers compare the information on the request form with state data to verify the requester’s identity. They match the last four digits of the Social Security number with the name on the request, or match the driver’s license number and name. This verification is a requirement of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
Cambria County election workers found each of these voter registration requests had something wrong with it. They found the names and numbers provided did not match the databases, and in some cases the requester had left the spaces for the Social Security number or driver’s license number blank, leaving workers with no numbers to match and no way to verify the requester’s identity, Repak said. In some cases, there was no signature, or the address did not match the name.
The county sent letters to the addresses on the forms informing applicants that the county needed more information before it could register the requester for voting, but the county did not hear back from any of the 21 applicants.
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