Nearly 250K Ballots Sent to Pa. Voters With Unverified IDs

Nearly 250,000 ballots, state data show, were mailed to Pennsylvania voters without their identities being verified, according to the election integrity organization Verity Vote.

Citing the information provided by Verity Vote, 15 Pennsylvania state House representatives sent a letter to acting Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Leigh Chapman on Tuesday.

Citing testimony from Deputy Secretary for Elections and Commissions Jonathan Marks, the legislators pointed out that ballots are being “mailed to unverified applicants.”

“But less than two weeks” after Marks’ testimony, the legislators continued, “the Department of State sent out guidance informing the counties that the verification is done prior to the mailing of ballots.”

“Either the ballots are mailed to unverified applicants or ballots are not mailed to unverified applicants but both statements cannot be true,” the state representatives wrote. “Due to this conflicting information, conscientious election workers could unknowingly accept and count ballots for which no verification has ever occurred.”

According to Just the News, Marks was asked by state Rep. Francis Ryan about “the large number of requests submitted to the Social Security Administration Help America Vote Verification (HAVV) system.”

The deputy secretary for Elections and Commissions responded, explaining that the HAVV systems were being used to verify Social Security numbers for mail-in ballot applications.

Reporting by Newsmax.

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