Pennsylvania voter rolls are missing in accuracy when in comparison with the NCOA (National Change of Address) database.
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, October 21, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Audit The Vote PA (ATVPA) ran the 09/05/2022 Pennsylvania Full Voter Export (FVE) by the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) National Change of Address Service (NCOA) on 09/09/2022 in an effort to determine and establish whether or not Pennsylvania and its 67 counties have adequately accomplished their PA Title 25 § 1901 yearly required listing upkeep, which is critical to be in compliance with 52 U.S.C. § 20507.
As of the ten/17/2022 Pennsylvania FVE, Audit The Vote PA (ATVPA) has recognized 241,677 registrations which are presently registered on the Pennsylvania voter rolls which are tied to an individual whom the USPS NCOA has indicated as having modified their tackle and not residing in Pennsylvania.
Of the 241,677 registrations, 113,323, or roughly 47%, are nonetheless “Active” on the ten/17/2022 FVE. Within these outcomes, there are energetic registrations with transfer dates going again to August of 2017 that seem like unaddressed. In Pennsylvania, when a voter registration standing is marked as “Inactive”, that elector should present a residency affirmation to vote.
The knowledge exhibits that 22,103 voters (9%) of the 241,677 registrations which have forged at the least one vote within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania after indicating to the USPS NCOA service that they’ve moved. Of these votes, 72% had been forged greater than a month after the person left Pennsylvania and 24% forged a vote greater than a 12 months after leaving Pennsylvania.
Analyzing the numbers of OOS strikes by county illustrates that almost all of those strikes originate from counties carefully following their inhabitants rankings.
Philadelphia County alone makes up roughly one-fifth of all OOS registrations, with 44,173 OOS registrations. To put this into perspective, 29 counties in Pennsylvania have fewer registered voters than Philadelphia has OOS registrations on their rolls.
Following inhabitants rating, Allegheny County is available in second with 28,826 OOS registrations, adopted by Montgomery (14,917), Chester (13,562), and Delaware (12,780) counties.
Surprisingly, Pike County has the very best share of OOS registrations on its rolls in comparison with its complete registration rely, making up 4.79% of its voter roll, adopted by Philadelphia (4.15%), Centre (3.73%), York (3.2%) and Chester (3.57%).
On the other finish of the spectrum are Juniata (0.74%), Fulton (0.77%), Indiana (1.01%), and Sullivan (1.03%) counties. Thirty-five of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties’ voter rolls consist of two% or fewer OOS registrations.
Conclustion:
Given the info introduced above and the responses from counties, ATVPA concludes that almost all counties in Pennsylvania take their listing upkeep and election actions very severely and act professionally when introduced with potential voter registration points. These counties that
comply with the regulation and take their upkeep actions severely, are presently being disenfranchised by these counties that select to deal with parts of the regulation as optionally available whereas studying into regulation textual content that isn’t written. These counties make up the vast majority of the recognized
OOS registrations and have the most important share of these registrations which are nonetheless energetic.
These counties are the identical counties which have fought all makes an attempt over the past 12 months+ to handle or resolve registration points delivered to them by their constituents. The lack of ability of those counties to reveal whether or not they had beforehand taken the required actions round these registrations exhibits they had been both solely unaware of the strikes or lacked the required record-keeping round these upkeep actions. Their method to performing the listing upkeep actions required by regulation, appears wholly inadequate to fulfill the necessities of PA Title 25 § 1901 and different election legal guidelines.
The constituents in these counties really feel that the county has failed to offer transparency or confidence round the way in which they preserve their voter rolls and administer their elections. This insecurity is amplified by the foremost points many of those counties have had round their dealing with of elections over the past a number of years, which has result in many tales which have made nationwide information.
It is ATVPA’s hope that this report serves as a wanted get up name to Pennsylvania’s State & County Governments and its residents about the necessity to sufficiently adhere to election regulation, carry out legally-required listing upkeep actions, and to work with their constituents to create transparency and confidence in Pennsylvania elections.
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www.auditthevotepa.com/reports-media
Toni L. Shuppe
Audit The Vote PA
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