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The Election Truth Alliance (ETA) is petitioning Pennsylvania officials to conduct a hand audit of paper voting records from the 2024 U.S. General election due to their analysis that has identified patterns consistent with vote manipulation in Election Day results. 

April 11, 2025 - The Election Truth Alliance (ETA) is petitioning Pennsylvania state and local officials to conduct a hand audit of paper voting records from the 2024 U.S. General election. The non-partisan, non-profit organization recently conducted an independent analysis of election results from three Pennsylvania counties: Philadelphia County, Allegheny County (which contains Pittsburgh), and Erie County. Applying multiple analytical methods, the ETA has identified patterns consistent with vote manipulation in Election Day results. Similar trends are not clearly present in Mail-In voting data.

Pennsylvania experienced voting system malfunctions across at least 20 counties on Election Day, with errors reported that were specific to ballot scanner/vote tabulator machines failing to scan ballots. Additionally, more than 30 bomb threats were sent to Pennsylvania election centers on Election Day via email accounts linked to Russian email domains. These disruptions resulted in deviations from normal voting procedures.

The ETA has delivered an independent analysis report identifying patterns consistent with vote manipulation - tampering with cast votes in a manner that adds, removes, or switches votes - in the 2024 Pennsylvania election results, including:

• "Drop-Off Vote" Irregularities: Drop-off votes are the difference between votes for the Presidential race and the next down-ballot race (for Pennsylvania in 2024, the Senate race). While the drop-off rate for Mail-In ballots is as expected relative to historic trends (1.48% vs 1.96%), the drop-off rate for Election Day results is far greater between the Democratic versus Republican candidates (0.87% vs. 4.51%, respectively).
  
• One Candidate Benefiting From Unusually High Turnout: The Republican presidential candidate received disproportionately more votes in precincts with high turnout, while a similar uptick in Trump votes is not noted in lower-turnout precincts. As one candidate benefitting from unusually high turnout has been credibly associated with election fraud in other countries, this may be cause to scrutinize whether that turnout may have been artificially inflated, such as through ballot-stuffing.
  
• Disproportionate Vote Share Over Sharp Vote Threshold: By measuring the percentage of the vote received by each Presidential candidate relative to the number of votes cast at a given precinct, the ETA has identified a sharp increase in Trump's vote share in precincts where more votes were cast and counted. This disproportionate increase appears in precincts that exceed a specific threshold of ballots cast (for example, a little over 200 ballots in Philadelphia County).

"Our findings in Pennsylvania are similar to what we saw in machine-level data from Clark County, Nevada," says Nathan Taylor, ETA Executive Director of Advocacy and Public Engagement. "In Clark County, we found that machines that processed a higher number of ballots showed a visible skew in favor of the Republican candidate. We have precinct-level data in Pennsylvania, so we see the shift by precinct."

In 2024, Candidate Trump ultimately won Pennsylvania's 19 Electoral Votes by a narrow margin, only 187,382 votes. The ETA's findings indicate that potential vote manipulation could have altered the outcome of the election in the state.

The Election Truth Alliance is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that supports election analysis, informed discussion, and peaceful action to highlight potential election manipulation, interference, and irregularities. The organization calls upon local and state officials to initiate an investigation, including hand recounts, to safeguard future election integrity and to ensure that Pennsylvania voters are informed about the security, integrity, and legitimacy of their votes.

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Josh Johnson, Election Truth Alliance, 1 213-444-0838, josh@electiontruthalliance.org, electiontruthalliance.org

Josh Shapiro

Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

501 North 3rd Street

508 Main Capitol Building

Harrisburg, PA 17120

Phone: (717) 787-2500

Dear Governor Shapiro:

We are writing to notify you that our organization has undertaken an independent analysis of publicly-available Pennsylvania election results. 

Our analysis indicates patterns consistent with vote manipulation, specifically Election Day result data for the presidential race. 

Because of this, we are urging your office, along with the Pennsylvania Secretary of State and the Pennsylvania Attorney General, to complete comprehensive hand audits of paper ballot records associated with the 2024 presidential race. 

The Election Truth Alliance (ETA) is a non-profit, nonpartisan, volunteer-led organization dedicated to supporting unbiased election analysis and informed discussions surrounding results. The ETA prioritizes the constitutional voting rights of citizens and seeks to equip them with vital information about the security, integrity, and legitimacy of their votes. We are data-driven and deeply committed to the principle that every eligible voter has the right to cast their vote and have their vote be counted accurately.

Over the past few months, our organization has investigated the 2024 Presidential Election results as data became available. Our analysis has targeted swing states, beginning with a full data package detailing potential non-human patterns in Clark County, Nevada Early Voting results that showed an abnormal spike in one candidate’s votes when reported by tabulation machines that processed higher volumes of ballots.

Candidly, the ETA had not intended to sequence our analysis of Pennsylvania this early in our examination of swing states. However, comments made by then-President Elect Trump at a pre-inauguration rally in Washington, D.C. on January 19, 2024 – specifically, in reference to Elon Musk’s familiarity with “vote-counting computers” and “winning Pennsylvania by a landslide” –  prompted us to shift our focus to Pennsylvania election result data, including data related to specific vote types (Mail-In, Provisional, Election Day) as published at the county level. 

The patterns seen in Pennsylvania are similar to those seen in referendums and elections in other countries where election interference is suspected, such as in Russia in 2011-2012. These patterns are not found in Mail-In or Provisional election results data. As you are aware, Mail-In and Provisional ballots in Pennsylvania are canvassed, assessed, and counted by hand. Ballots cast on Election Day are the only votes that are tallied almost entirely by machine tabulators. 

Voting system vulnerabilities are well-known among cybersecurity and election security experts. According to previous independent academic studies, malicious software running on a single voting machine can manipulate votes with little risk of detection. Anyone who has physical access to a voting machine can install malicious software using a simple method that takes as little as one minute.

Our research team recognizes that Pennsylvania experienced unusually high volumes of voting system malfunctions on Election Day 2024, with machine error reports from at least 20 of 67 counties. Many of these error reports concern vote counting tabulators, which failed to scan ballots. We are also aware that at least 32 bomb threats were called in to Pennsylvania polling places, causing disruptions; these interruptions to the election process could have provided malicious actors an opportunity to gain access to e-Poll books, ballot scanners/tabulators, or other electronic election infrastructure. 

In Clark County, Nevada, the ETA identified evidence consistent with vote manipulation in our analysis of the Early Voting data. As Pennsylvania's “early voting” process varies from other states, relying on an “on-demand mail-in” model rather than in-person Early Voting, the opportunity for votes to be manipulated was limited. Thus, the presence and intensity of reported machine failures and bomb threats that occurred on Election Day are particularly disturbing.

We have attached a web version of our data package focused on analysis of Philadelphia, Allegheny, and Erie counties for you and your team to review our findings in more detail. We have observed two trends previously identified in international academic works as potential indicators of fraudulent elections: 1) notable differences between votes cast at the “top of the ticket” and down-ballot candidates, only significantly present in Election Day data; and 2) an anomalous correlation between high levels of voter turnout and a spike in favorable results for one candidate or party, also only present in Election Day data. 

As the governor of Pennsylvania, we understand that you have a deep commitment to supporting the constitutional rights of your citizens. We would like to bolster your resolve by urging you to take clear, decisive action by completing a hand audit of paper voting records to verify the results of the last election. 

Therefore, the ETA is formally requesting that a hand audit of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election results be conducted in the state of Pennsylvania, particularly for Election Day results for which hand tabulation has not been undertaken.
 

This will not only assure that the citizens of Pennsylvania were not disenfranchised of their constitutional right to have their votes accurately counted in a free and fair election, but it will provide citizens with confidence in the integrity of future elections.

Please be advised that our organization will be posting this letter publicly in the coming days to ensure that Pennsylvanians are made aware of the results of our analysis, these atypical results, and our formal request to your office. 

Governor Shapiro, every eligible voter has the constitutional right to vote and to have their vote be counted accurately. The consequences of undetected vote manipulation — and the impacts it would have on our democracy — are too crucial to rely entirely on such vulnerable technology. This is not election denial; this is election integrity. The potential harm that could come from leaving an election unverified is far greater than the work it takes to conduct a comprehensive audit and verify the results. 

Our organization is able and willing to support hand audits of election results and cost-sharing measures as needed. 

With gratitude and great respect,

The Election Truth Alliance Leadership Team

CC:    Al Schmidt, Secretary of the Commonwealth

          David W. Sunday, Jr., Pennsylvania Attorney General 

          Cherelle Parker, Mayor of Philadelphia

          Ed Gainey, Mayor of Pittsburgh

         Joe Schember, Mayor of Erie

          Wanda R. D. Williams, Mayor of Harrisburg

          Pennsylvania Bureau of Elections

          Division of Election Security and Technology

          Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania