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A group of local activists in southeastern Pennsylvania is presently challenging 865 mail-in ballot applications in Pennsylvania’s suburban southeastern counties, citing evidence that many applicants moved.
The disputers, who asked for anonymity to avoid potential harassment, obtained voter data from the commonwealth’s Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) and identified voters who filed a permanent national change of address form. They then checked those names against mail-in ballot requests for the November general election.
Broad + Liberty reviewed the list of disputed applicants containing 514 Democrats, 221 Republicans, and 130 others. The activists are not challenging anyone who filed a permanent change of address form after the April primary. (Someone who has moved can still vote in their old precinct in the very next election after moving, but not after that.)
While most of the people on the list incurred a ballot-request challenge from the activists based on change of address — in many cases out of state — about 7.5 percent of those listed were indicated as unregistered anywhere in Pennsylvania. The reason in each case is not known; the activists cited registration cancellation or death as possible explanations...
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