The Pennsylvania state police raided the offices of a group that helps Democrats with voter registration efforts, searching for evidence of voter-registration fraud, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday.
Investigators sought a warrant last week to search a FieldWorks LLC office in Delaware County in suburban Philadelphia for documents, financial information, and a list of employees, according to documents reviewed by the Inquirer.
According to the Inquirer, officials said in the warrant that they were looking for “templates … utilized to construct fraudulent voter registration forms” and “completed voter registration forms containing same or similar identifying information of individuals on multiple forms.”
A judge in Delaware County signed the warrant on Friday, but it’s unclear when the raid occurred, according to the Inquirer.
In a statement provided to TPM, Fieldworks LLC said that the group follows the law and reports any problems on voter registration forms.
“The integrity of our electoral system is a foundation of our democracy, which is why FieldWorks has the most rigorous quality controls in the industry and zero tolerance for fraud. Our team works closely with state and local officials to ensure that we exceed the requirements of the law. FieldWorks proactively brings any problems with registration forms to the attention of local officials,” the statement from Fieldworks reads.
As for this particular case, the group said in its statement, “Fieldworks is now working with county officials to provide them with information on our program and applications they are investigating. In keeping with our regular practice, we will work aggressively with authorities to seek the prosecution of anyone involved in wrongdoing. As this is an ongoing investigation, we’ll decline further comment until the authorities conclude their efforts.”
Tierney Sneed contributed reporting.
Indiana State Police and now the Pennsylvania State Police? Am I recognizing a pattern?
Who initiated the request for the warrant? Steve Bannon? Kellyanne Conway? Corey Lewandowski?
Disgusted minds want to know…
This voter-suppression stuff is out of control.
And after the election, we’ll hear how lower turnout this year proves there was widespread fraud going on in prior elections.
Before I start jumping to conclusions, it looks like there may be a difference between the PA raid and the Indiana raid. It’s difficult to tell from the report whether the voter reg org itself is the target, or if the warrant had to be obtained because the org didn’t have the authority to give up some information on allegedly fraudulent forms.
In any case, I saw in the philly.com comments that the total lack of understanding in the difference between voter election fraud and voter registration fraud is alive and well.
This shit needs to be addressed nationally by the DNC and the President. They are playing the ACORN game all over again and the only people who will suffer from such legalistic machinations are votes unable to register, disenfranchised because of an over-zealous RNC.
Make this loud and put it to bed.