Delaware County prosecutors announced charges Thursday against a Collingdale woman who they say repeatedly tried to submit voter registration forms for dead people and against an elderly man who cast ballots in both Florida and Pennsylvania last month.
The charges are the first to come from the county’s investigations into alleged voter fraud and irregularities in the 2024 election.Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s loud and persistent claims of Philadelphia-area voter fraud before the election, few charges have been filed more than a month after ballots were counted.
Delaware County officials said that the election was safe and secure, and that Thursday’s charges should be viewed as evidence that election fraud will be investigated and prosecuted.
The two cases resulted in just one fraudulently cast ballot— that of the man who double-voted — out of more than 330,000 cast in the county, officials stressed….
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said his department had filed 40 counts, including four felony charges of forgery, against Jennifer Hill, a Collingdale resident who was a paid canvasser for the New Pennsylvania Project, a nonpartisancivic engagement group focused on reaching immigrants, youth, and voters of color.
Hill, prosecutors said, filed more than 300 voter registration forms using an app provided by the Pennsylvania Department of State, but 129 of those were rejected as invalid. Election officials and prosecutors found that she had unsuccessfullysought to register three deceased individuals, including her father and a man who died in her home, they said. Additionally, prosecutors said, she successfully registered a fake person to vote using her grandmother’s name but an incorrect date of birth. No ballot was cast in association with that registration….