Ryan based his claim on a previously sent petition from the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who ruled that mail-in ballots do not need signature authentication, effectively “treating in-person and mail-in voters dissimilarly and eliminating a critical safeguard against potential election crime.”
Another discrepancy pointed out by Ryan is the state figures on the total number of ballots sent. On Nov. 2, it is shown that 2.7 million ballots were sent out to voters while on Nov. 4 the Commonwealth’s PA Open Data sites showed 3.1 million ballots were sent out, creating a discrepancy of 400,000 ballots.
In addition, sudden changes in state election laws have been a source of controversy, with Clinton-era legal superstar Ken Starr saying before the Senate:
“The principle here is … [the] Constitution is very clear that it is the prerogative of state legislatures to determine what these rules and laws are,” Starr told the Senate Homeland Security Panel. “And that was, I must say, flagrantly violated in Pennsylvania, and perhaps elsewhere as well.”
