Former President Donald Trump and his allies made a variety of claims about fraudulent voting to try to get the election results in 2020 overturned. Among their claims was that over 4,000 people voted twice in Pennsylvania.
But a new report released by the Senate Judiciary Committee detailing the former president's efforts to overturn the election demolishes this claim.
"In reality, only three actual efforts to vote twice have been identified to date in the state of Pennsylvania, and all three were attempts to vote twice for Trump," said the report. "The false claim of over 4,000 double votes stems from a printing error that caused more than 4,000 voters to mistakenly receive two absentee ballots apiece. But that did not translate into any duplicate votes because, as the Pennsylvania Department of State explained, 'all the duplicate ballots are coded for the same voter, so if a voter tried to submit more than one, the system would literally prevent the second ballot from being counted.'"
In other words: All of the people who committed voter fraud using this method were Trump voters.
One high-profile fraud case that did occur in Pennsylvania was a man from Forty Fort who attempted to use the ballot of his deceased mother to cast a second vote for Trump.
Trump's fraud assertions were not convincing to state or federal judges at the time, with legal efforts to overturn Biden wins rejected over 60 times — including by at least one judge Trump himself appointed.
