A A Pennsylvania woman has been arrested For forgery, tampering with public records, and voter registration charges based on allegations that she attempted to fraudulently register dead people, including her father, to vote in the 2024 election.
Jennifer Hale, of Chester, was arrested Thursday and charged with trying to add four ineligible individuals to the voter rolls, including her late father.
Hill used an app to register 324 people as employees for a group called the New Pennsylvania Project, Jack Stollsteimer, the Democratic U.S. Attorney for Delaware County, said in public statements.
The Pennsylvania Department of State is making the app available to legal voter registration drives, Stollsteimer said. He said Hill succeeded in registering 181 people, but another 129 names – what he described as a “large number” – were unsuccessful.
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“What this woman literally did was increase her job numbers. She started recording people who had died. Her father was one of them.”
Hill allegedly tried to register a second deceased person, whom Stollsteimer said Hill knew was dead because he died in 2011 at the home where she currently lives.
“She knows because she was the person who called the police to come when he died at her house.”
“I registered an imposter,” Stollsteimer said, adding that the designated registrant did not vote this year. The fake person's identity was a combination of her grandmother's name and a different birthday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Additionally, prosecutors charged an 84-year-old man named Philip Moss with voting in Florida and by mail. In Delaware County.
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In a statement obtained by Fox News Digital, an executive with the New Pennsylvania Project called the allegations “heartbreaking” and said the group does not offer financial incentives or rewards for additional voter registrations.
“Our employees do not have a set quota to meet, and the hourly wages paid to part-time voter collection staff remain the same regardless of the number of voter registration applications collected,” Kadida Keener said.
Keener added that the Pennsylvania Department of State notified the group about potential issues with one of the commissioners and the person — believed to be Hill — was immediately suspended.
“Because of the hard work of many individuals to prevent acts of sabotage by bad actors, our voting rolls and elections are secure, and no fraudulent votes were cast,” she said.
“As a nonpartisan organization, our year-round voter registration efforts are not directed, coordinated, or aligned with any political party or candidate. Our registration efforts are not and will never be dictated by an election cycle,” Keener continued.
Of the nearly 10,000 applicants the group recruited, 48% were registered as Democrats, 34% as unaffiliated or third party and 18% as Republicans.
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Hill reportedly faces up to 10 charges for each of the four recordings that led to the indictment by prosecutors in the media.
Democratic majority The Philadelphia suburb was once again a “swing” county—often voting Democratic at the presidential level while electing state legislative Republicans such as then-Senate Leader Domenic Pileggi in the 2000s.
But Delco, as it's often called, along with neighboring Chester and Montgomery counties, has swung sharply left in the era of Donald Trump.
Vice President Kamala Harris won the district 61% of the votes.
