Thousands of Pennsylvania voters have had their mail ballot applications challenged

Thousands of Pennsylvania voters have had their mail ballot applications challenged toggle caption Hannah Beier/Getty Images PHILADELPHIA — Thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ mail ballot applications, along with baseless claims by former President Donald Trump about an investigation into suspicious voter registration forms, are adding pressure on Pennsylvania county officials in the election's final hours. Thousands of challenges target overseas voters Mail ballot challenges by right-wing activists and sitting Republican members of Pennsylvania’s state Senate are also raising concerns among many election observers. Last week, officials in Chester County, the suburb west of Philadelphia, rejected more than 180 challenges to domestic voters submitted by Diane Houser, a county resident who said that she was working with a group called PA Fair Elections as part of a “statewide effort.” During a three-hour hearing, Houser ultimately withdrew 29 challenges after registered voters — including a law enforcement officer and a spouse of a military service member — pushed back with evidence of their current residency in the county. “It just feels wrong” Bucks County, a politically purple Philadelphia suburb, received close to 1,200 mail ballot challenges against overseas voters registered only for federal elections, the largest batch out of all the counties.