Pennsylvania Woman Charged After Registering Deceased People to Vote

Pennsylvania officials have charged Jennifer Hill for registering deceased people to vote.

Hill, who worked for voting organization New Pennsylvania Project, was charged with “forgery, tampering with public record/information, applying for registration knowing individual is not entitled to registration, and other related offenses, NBC 10 Philadelphia reported.

Hill attempted to register 310 people between April 2024 and September 2024, according to officials. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said 181 of the attempts were successful.

One of the individuals Hill aimed to register included a person who died in her home in 2011.

“She knows that because she was the person who called the police to come when he died in her house,” Stollsteimer said. He added, “She did register a fraudulent person and my understanding is this is sort of a gap in the system where by putting in no date of birth and no social security number, it goes through and became a verified voter registration,” Stollsteimer said. “She did not take any further step. That fictitious person did not vote in the 2024 election. But that shows you how we still have gaps in our system that we need to have the legislature address.”

“We don’t know from the other 129 that were non-verifiable, how many of those were made up names,” he added. “The Pennsylvania Department of State, I believe, needs to take a look at all of the ones that were submitted by this individual and frankly, I think they should look at all of the ones that were submitted by this organization. It could be just one bad canvasser, but they should take a look and make sure that all of those people are legitimate registrations.”

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