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Hundreds of 2,500 voter registration forms flagged as suspicious were found to be fraudulent, an official from Pennsylvania's Lancaster County confirmed on Monday.
The county is one of four in the key battleground state that is investigating possibly fraudulent applications, along with York, Monroe and Cambria.
This is where the investigations stand in each county.
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Lancaster County
Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D'Agostino said in a press conference that of the 2,500 suspicious applications in his county, 57 percent had been verified as valid and 17 percent were found to be fraudulent.
He said that the remaining 26 percent were still under investigation because they were incomplete or unverified.
"Those other two buckets are going to change, quite frankly, based on the continuing investigation," D'Agostino said.
"And I will say that a lot of those apparently that are in that category, the 26 percent, a good number of those, they're still suspected of being fraud. But it's a very painstaking process obviously."
At a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, Donald Trump seized on the fraud investigations, incorrectly claiming that Lancaster County had discovered "2,600 ballots, all done by the same hand."
The fraud investigation in the county relates to voter registration forms, not ballots.
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Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Trump was using "the same playbook" as he did in 2020 to "stoke chaos" over the election.
"We will again have a free and fair, safe and secure election—and the will of the people will be respected."
Election officials in the counties in question have assured voters that any fraud attempts have been isolated and stopped.
York County
York County said it was investigating 3,087 applications that had been received in bulk.
York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler said on Thursday that around 47 percent of the applications had been verified as legitimate.
Twenty four percent were declined and are undergoing further review, of which a majority were duplicate registration requests.
The remaining 29 percent of applications were found to have incomplete information, and their approval is pending additional information from the applicants.
Monroe County
Monroe County District Attorney Mike Mancuso said on Friday that 27 irregular voter applications and mail-in ballot request forms had been identified and were being investigated.
He noted that 21 of those applications had been mailed by a subsidiary of an Arizona-based company, of which 16 were found to be fraudulent.
Mancuso said that those applications had "forged signatures, often with incorrect or incomplete identifying information."
Of the other applications unrelated to the company, two appeared to have been stolen mail-in ballots while the other three remain under investigation, he said.
Cambria County
In early October, officials in Cambria County said that 21 requests for voter registration were rejected and later confirmed to be fraudulent after an investigation.
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