Pennsylvania criminal case highlights problems with third-party voter registration drives
In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, workers with an Arizona-based consulting firm conducting a voter registration drive tried to submit fake registrations in Pennsylvania in an effort to earn more money, the state attorney general is alleging in a criminal complaint filed this month.
The case grew out of investigations in a few counties into voter registration applications that prosecutors had flagged as irregular before the election.
But election officials across the commonwealth say the problems with these types of third-party voter registration drives aren’t limited to this incident of alleged fraud. Rather, they say, systemic problems with the way third-party voter registration organizations operate often result in street canvassers submitting incomplete or invalid registrations.
Even when it doesn’t rise to the level of fraud, they say, the practice floods county election offices with extra work to sort through these registrations, and the problem could be mitigated via changes to state law.
https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2025/10/30/third-party-registration-drives-issues-fraud-2024/