The investigation of nearly two dozen complaints related to the 2020 election in Bucks County has led to expected charges against two women.
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office plans to file two separate charges of third-degree misdemeanor violations of provisions relating to absentee and mail-in ballots against a 56-year-old Buckingham Township woman and a 51-year-old Quakertown Borough woman.
The district attorney’s office posted a press release announcing the charges Friday evening, but quickly retracted it because the woman were not yet formally charged. LevittownNow.com typically only publishes defendant’s names once charges are filed or they are in police custody.
Although the two cases were similar they were not connected.
No fraudulent mail-in votes were counted, authorities said.
The Quakertown Borough woman signed the declaration on the ballot for her recently deceased mother, and the Buckingham Township woman signed the declaration on the ballot for her recently deceased mother, according to investigators.
A handwriting analysis in the cases determined the mothers’ of the women that will be charged did not sign the ballots, authorities said.
The district attorney’s office said they were not aware of the party registrations of the women charged or that of their late mothers. They also were not sure of who they voted for in the fraudulent ballots.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported one of the women was a Democrat and the other a Republican.
In the statement that was prematurely released, District Attorney Matt Weintraub said the Bucks County Detectives investigated 22 complaints in the 2020 election season and found no “widespread or systematic election fraud here in Bucks County.” The district attorney said the complaints ranged from residency problems, voter intimidation, threats to election officials, and possible ballot tampering. Referrals came from a number of sources, including politicos, residents, and other government agencies. No other charges related to the election in Bucks County have been filed at the county, state, or federal level.
“In some of these investigations, the detectives obtained DNA samples from ballots and voters for analysis, took handwriting samples from voters, prepared and served search warrants for IP addresses for electronic mail-in-ballot application submissions, reviewed video surveillance of county government facilities, contacted and spoke to postal carriers, and contacted and spoke to FBI agents assigned to voter irregularities,” the news release said.
In Bucks County, close to 390,000 votes were cast in the 2020 general election and about 164,000 of them were mail-in or absente ballots.
Following the November 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump’s campaign said in court that there was no evidence of fraud, misconduct, impropriety, and undue influence in Bucks County’s election. Local Democrats and Republicans made similar statements that there was no fraud. Federal, state and local law enforcement and security officials have reported no evidence of widespread fraud across the state or nation.
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