United Sovereign Americans (USA), an emerging right-wing group committed to manipulating voter rolls across the country, has sued Pennsylvania state authorities over voter roll maintenance and the accuracy of the electoral system.

The lawsuit, filed on June 18 by USA along with former Republican candidate for the state House of Representatives Ruth Moton and a voter, alleges that there were more than one million voting errors in the counting of votes cast in the 2022 election. The plaintiffs claim that this number exceeds the allowable allocation of one voting error per 125,000 votes cast under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).

The lawsuit also alleges that the state's voter rolls contained hundreds of thousands of errors in the 2022 election, including duplicate registrations, voters with inactive status, and invalid or illogical registration data. The plaintiffs allege that there was a discrepancy of nearly 10,000 votes between votes cast and votes counted in the Keystone State in the 2022 election.

This is the second lawsuit filed by the U.S. in federal court challenging a state's voter rolls. In March, the group filed a similar lawsuit in Maryland challenging the state's voter rolls and other election procedures. The Maryland lawsuit was dismissed by a federal court in May, a victory for voters. However, the group appealed to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Since USA filed its first lawsuit in Maryland, the group has spoken openly about its daring legal strategy to potentially rig the 2024 election by filing a series of lawsuits across the country challenging the state's voter rolls and administration procedures. In a previous expose on the group, Democracy Docket reported on its complementary efforts to train an army of volunteers to convince county election officials and boards of supervisors to sign a document outlining how they plan to conduct the election.

The group's founder, Marly Hornik, had previously conducted a review of the state's voter rolls in New York, recruiting volunteers to pose as election officials and search voters' homes to confirm their voter rolls. The New York Attorney General accused the group of violating federal Voting Rights Act and Ku Klux Klan law by intimidating voters and sent them a cease-and-desist notice.

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