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Pa. Rep. Frank Ryan (R-Lebanon) provided testimony in a hearing before the U.S. Senate regarding election irregularities.
Ryan said in his testimony that there were inconsistencies in the general election in Pennsylvania. He said there is evidence of violations of the state’s election laws.
“The mail in-ballots system for the general election of 2020 in Pennsylvania was so fraught with inconsistencies and irregularities that the reliability of the mail-in votes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is impossible to rely upon,” Ryan said in his testimony.
Ryan said the state Supreme Court undermined Act 77 by extending the mail-in ballot deadline and ruling that mail-in ballots did not need to be authenticated. He said this treated in-person voting and mail-in voting differently.
Ryan also said the Secretary of State’s office caused issues with the election by allowing counties to notify representatives of parties and candidates of defective mail-in votes so that they could correct them and for allowing certain counties to not let poll watchers observe activities involving the mail-in ballots.
“At the county level the pattern of inconsistencies is easily seen,” Ryan said.
Ryan pointed to an over-vote in Philadelphia County, wherein it was posted that the number of mail-in ballots reported to have been counted was 508,112, when there were only 432,873 ballots issued to voters in the county.
“Later that day, the ballots counted number was reduced but this begs the question, who had the authority to add and subtract votes on the ballot counts reported to the Department of State?” Ryan said. “Even if this was simply a data entry error, the lack of internal controls over such reporting necessitates a review of the numbers, the process and system access.”
Ryan said there were more than 1,500 ballots for voters over the age of 100 and there were more than 150,000 ballots that were late, but still counted.
Ryan said without knowing the answers to the issues that occurred in Pennsylvania, the results of the election cannot be determined.
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