Montco GOP: Elections Board Response To Upper Dublin Drop Box Video 'Deeply Troubling'

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — The Montgomery County Republican Committee is chastising county elections officials for their recent response to a video purporting to show an individual dropping off multiple mail-in ballots at one time at a collection box in Upper Dublin Township during last November's election.

The GOP committee had recently released a video that showed a woman dropping multiple mail-in ballots at the drop box in Upper Dublin back on Election Day, Nov. 2, 2021.

On March 24, after the video was leaked, the Montgomery County Board of Elections issued a statement saying that they had "determined that the individual depicted in the video clip deposited each ballot with a completed Designated Agent Form in accordance with Pennsylvania law and maintains each of these Designated Agent forms in its possession."

Last Friday, the local GOP attacked the board's response as "false," saying that the Pennsylvania Department of State designated agent form says that a designated agent is only allowed to serve as an agent for one voter, unless the additional voter or voters live in the same household as the agent.

The GOP says it is disturbed by the election board's response to the video because the board is interpreting a "large senior living facility as one household."

Apparently, the designee who dropped off the mail-in ballots in the video was a representative from a local senior residential community.

The state's voting fact sheet for long-term care facilities specifically states that a "household" for the purpose of designating an agent does not include such long-term care facilities, according to the county GOP.

"The Democrat-controlled County has chosen to protect one of its own party leaders in direct violation of PA law," the Montgomery County Republican Committee said in its statement. "This kind of blatant disregard for even the simplest election security rules is unacceptable and contributes to the deep distrust many have in our system."

The committee says it is requesting that the elections board turn over all of the evidence it used to review the Upper Dublin drop box incident, and they also seek to have the information provided to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, and, if appropriate, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office.