Bill Introduced to Correct Pennsylvania’s Voter Records
January 21, 2022 | Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Sen. Ryan Aument (R-Lititz) announced Thursday he has introduced a bill to correct errors in the state’s voter record-keeping system.
In December 2019, a report by Democratic then-Auditor General Eugene DePasquale detailed a host of problems with that system, known as the Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE). Within that registry, which is maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of State, DePasquale and his staff discovered 24,408 cases of the same driver’s license (DL) number being indicated on multiple voter records. They also found 2,991 voter records containing information matching that on state Department of Health deceased files.
The auditor general determined that those and other potential inaccuracies resulted from weaknesses in both the upkeep of SURE and the process of applying to vote. Once presented with these findings, Pennsylvania’s then-Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar (D) disputed that the problems with her agency ran as deep as DePasquale suggested. (Boockvar would resign 13 months later for failing to properly publicize an upcoming ballot question concerning a proposed constitutional amendment.)… (Excerpts from the Pennsylvania Daily Star)
