Basically we have about a year to get that right before the 2024 presidential election.” If he is elected, he said, taking that and other steps is of the utmost urgency: “So we’re going to take that very seriously and move really hard. “There’s still a lot of dead on the rolls, and what have you, and there’s ghost phantom voters that we found, as well, at various address.” “We might have to reset, as far as registration, start that whole process over here,” Mastriano said. In an interview on the conservative broadcaster Newsmax three days after the primary election, Mastriano suggested that it is a step that his appointed secretary of state can take without approval by the Legislature. In a gubernatorial primary debate in April, Mastriano said that, if elected, he would require voters to “re-register. But he has pitched re-registration as a necessary step to scrub the voter rolls of dead voters and ghost voters - voters registered to nonexistent addresses - in time for the 2024 presidential election. It’s unclear where Mastriano got the idea, and he has not responded to repeated interview requests on this or any other topic. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor That means a Mastriano victory in November could make Pennsylvania - a premier presidential battleground state - a test case of whether laws meant to protect voter access to the polls can be undermined. Pennsylvania is one of the few states where governors appoint a secretary of state who oversees elections.
6 insurrection and was endorsed by Trump, is undeterred, discussing his plan for re-registration both before and after winning the Republican nomination for governor on May 17.
It is also a throwback to laws designed by white people in past eras to keep Black people or newer European immigrants from voting.īut Mastriano, who was present at the U.S. The concept flatly violates federal law, legal scholars say, and may conflict with state law, not to mention constitutional protections. Army colonel, Mastriano says he wants to make everyone re-register if they want to vote again.
Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican candidate for governor, is perhaps the state’s most prominent peddler of former President Donald Trump’s lie that widespread fraud cost him the 2020 election.Ī state senator and retired U.S.
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