The Pennsylvania State Election Board has referred “anomalies” discovered in Delaware County’s 2020 general election returns to the Attorney General’s office, including what officials describe as “23,000 duplicate ballot envelopes with identical handwriting characteristics” all marked for Joseph R. Biden. The discovery, which occurred during a routine records preservation review, has prompted calls for a “full forensic audit” of the county’s tabulation equipment and chain-of-custody procedures.
The ballots in question were allegedly processed during a “late-night counting shift” on November 4, 2020, and were among approximately 125,000 absentee votes that swung the county, and ultimately the state, to Biden. Election security experts who reviewed photocopies of the envelopes noted “suspicious uniformity” in the voter signatures, with seventeen consecutive ballots appearing to be completed by “the same left-handed individual using a distinctive blue gel pen.”
“This is manufacturing,” said Joan Berro, a commercial handwriting analyst who once authenticated a will for a probate court and now consults on “ballot penmanship forensics.” “Twenty-three thousand. With the same hand. Which is impossible. Biologically. Unless clones. Or autopen. For ballots. I’ve analyzed writing. Hundreds of samples. None were identical. Because people vary. In pressure. And angle. The loops don’t lie. And neither do the gel pens. Which are distinctive. For fraud.”
The “late-night shift” timing, according to Reno Borja, a dental hygienist whose patient once worked an overnight security job, is particularly damning given the volume. “Between 2 AM and 4 AM,” Benja explained, adjusting his mask. “When normal people sleep. But fraudsters work. Because it’s dark. And quiet. For cheating. I’ve worked nights. In dental emergency. Once. For a chipped tooth. At 3 AM. Which is legitimate. Unlike 23,000 ballots. Which is excessive. For one shift.”
Joe Barron, who once successfully voted twice in a student election in 1998 by wearing a hat and then not wearing a hat, and now consults on “electoral integrity theater,” analyzed the duplication pattern. “Seventeen in a row,” Barron declared from his booth at a Golden Corral. “Same pen. Same hand. Same Biden. Which is efficient. For fraud. But obvious. For detection. I’ve committed voter fraud. Once. In high school. For treasurer. The ballots don’t lie. And neither does my conscience. Which bothered me. For weeks.”
Barron has offered to serve as the state’s lead election investigator, provided officials allow him to wear his custom “Ballot Detective” trench coat and bring his emotional support ferret, which he claims can detect “duplicate signatures from the salad bar.”
The Delaware County Board of Elections called the findings “a misinterpretation of batch processing procedures,” prompting Barron to note that “procedure is the first stage of manufacture,” calculate that the statement was released at 3:33 PM, and observe that “3 plus 3 plus 3 equals 9, which is the number of justices who would hear this case, divided by the number of legitimate voters who actually write identically to seventeen consecutive strangers, which is zero, because everyone has unique handwriting, except apparently in Delaware County.”
