Counties across Pennsylvania are reporting interest in the 2020 presidential election remains strong as evidenced by the high number of voting and election-related record requests coming into their offices.
With the Nov. 8 election less than two months away, county election offices across Pennsylvania are moving into crunch time for preparing for Election Day. But many are facing an added challenge this year.
Montgomery County spokeswoman Kelly Cofrancisco said there’s been a “substantial increase in RTK requests” submitted to her county’s Voter Services Office. State elections officials say other counties too have reported adding staff or dedicating staff time to respond to an unusual number of such requests.
Officials in Dauphin, Perry and York counties also report an uptick in requests for election records, particularly those relating to the 2020 presidential election, but they say it’s manageable and not affecting their election readiness. “They’ve also seen an increase in participation in their regularly scheduled election board meetings as well,” he said. “And it’s not just in recent months in 2022. It started back in 2021.”
CVRs, as they are referred to, list line by line individual vote choices and where votes were cast along with other information. The Pennsylvania Department of State considers those records to be contents of a ballot box, which like contents of voting systems, state election law bars from public inspection.
“These particular RTK requests stem from the election lies and conspiracy theories of the MyPillow guy, which have inspired a nationally coordinated effort,” Harvie said. O’Donnell’s website includes directions for making requests for CVRs and other election-related information. It also logs the CVR files that requesters in each state obtained and shared with the website.. That file contains information about votes cast in Allegheny County during the 2020 general election.
In the court papers, the department maintains the disclosure of information in CVRs – described as an analog version of the counters previously used on mechanical voting machines — have the potential to violate the constitutional guarantee of voting secrecy.
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