HARRISBURG, PA.— A guy is being charged by the federal government with voting twice in Pennsylvania during the November 2022 election and in both Florida and Pennsylvania for the 2020 presidential election.
Philip C. Pulley, 62, of Huntingdon Valley was charged with five felonies on Friday by the U.S. attorney’s office in Philadelphia. They say he broke federal election law by falsely registering to vote, voting twice, and committing election fraud.
It’s not clear how often people vote twice or how often this is punished. However, a study released by The Associated Press in December 2021 found that there were less than 475 possible cases of voting fraud in the six battleground states that former President Donald Trump disputed in the 2020 election. They were not enough to have made a difference in his loss for re-election.
People say that Pulley lied about his home and Social Security number when he registered to vote in Philadelphia in 2020, even though he was already registered to vote in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and Broward County, Florida. The criminal charges say that he asked for a mail-in ticket in Philadelphia that year and voted in both Montgomery and Broward.
The charge sheet also says that he voted in both Philadelphia and Montgomery counties in November 2022, when there was an election for a U.S. Senate spot.
Government officials say Pulley used his Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County, home to vote many times between 2005 and 2018. When he registered to vote in Lighthouse Point, Florida, in 2018, Broward County records show that he was a Republican. He has also voted from that home more than once.
In Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Pulley was listed as a Republican from the 1990s until last year, when he changed it to the Democratic Party. A few years before, in February 2020, he became a Democrat in Philadelphia. He voted there in the general elections of 2021, 2022, and 2023, according to the records.
In court papers, Pulley did not have a lawyer named. People called his phone numbers and an email address related to him and asked for his opinion.
