Pennsylvania resident Jean Franco Urbaez arrived at his polling place in Lower Macungie Township, PA, to vote in person. To his surprise, someone had already voted in person using his identity at 8:11. Urbaez videotaped himself making the discovery until he was told he was not allowed to videotape in the polling place.
According to Urbaez, Pennsylvania has no requirement to prove a voter’s identity, making it easy to steal someone else’s vote. He explains that after he discovered someone voted using his name and address, poll workers gave him the opportunity to cast a provisional ballot. Urbaez explained that once he cast his provisional ballot, it would be up to him to argue that the person who voted using his identity while Urbaez slept this morning was not him, for HIS ballot to count.
This is obviously a completely avoidable situation. If federal law required each voter to provide a legitimate form of identification to vote, this would never have happened. No voter should walk into their polling place to vote in-person only to find out someone else had already voted for them.
