Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — Dauphin County Commissioner Hartwick responded to claims of election interference during the public comment session of today’s Dauphin County Commissioner’s meeting after a woman from Swatara Township expressed her concerns to the commissioners.
The woman was unable to present documentation of her specific claims, however she appealed to the general public to present any similar evidence that has been sent through the mail.
Commissioner Hartwick reassured the public of election integrity in Dauphin County, and promised a full and thorough investigation will be made of any claims backed with evidence. Hartwick pointedly stated the Dauphin County Elections Bureau is running an open, transparent, and accessible election. He said there has been no type of fraud or interference detected to date.
The woman’s brother – the only Democrat in the family – allegedly received voting literature in the mail, addressed to their father, encouraging him to vote. However, her father has been dead for 14 years. And, he never lived with her brother during his life.
“Other than his home address, his last four years were at (my) address,” Joann Siebert said. ‘Why would it be sent to my brother?”
Siebert’s suspicion was that her brother is the only Democrat in the family and a strong union supporter – and that Pennsylvania will be one of the swing state’s determining who’s elected President. Siebert regretted that she didn’t get to her brother’s in time to retrieve it from the trash.
“If dead people are getting mailings on how to vote early, what else is in the works?,” asked Siebert. “I’m sure my deceased father isn’t the only one getting these mailings.” (Note: it is unclear what exactly the mailing was and if it was a third-party mailing.)
Seibert did express faith in the commissioners committing to election integrity; but worried that other individuals and organization could have nefarious plans.
Commissioner George Hartwick did issue following response to the woman: “This election ..there are no areas where we believe there is any level of fraud – we are running a very directly open transparent accessible election and the idea of those kinds of issues – if you have evidence we want to examine it, but there has been …very little evidence (to support claims of fraud).”
In July 2024, Judicial Watch’s efforts led to a settlement with the Pennsylvania Department of State to remove deceased voters from the state’s voter rolls. Prior to the lawsuit, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) had identified at least 21,000 deceased registrants who remained on the rolls, including 9,212 who had been dead for at least five years.
Currently, election law in Pa. reads that: “the Department of Health shall, within 60 days of receiving notice of the death of an individual 18 years of age or older, send the name and address of residence of that individual to a commission in a manner and on a form prescribed by the department. The commission shall promptly update information contained in its registration records.” Obituaries presented to election offices can also be used to promptly remove voters, per election law.
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