President-elect Donald Trump has often and repeatedly warned of the risks of voter fraud and urged states to take action to further ensure and protect the integrity of the electoral processes.

Trump's warnings appear justified after a Pennsylvania woman was arrested and charged last week for attempting to fraudulently register at least four deceased or fictitious individuals to vote ahead of the 2024 elections, Fox News reported.

The woman, a paid canvasser for a supposedly nonpartisan voting rights advocacy organization, sought to fraudulently register as voters her late father and another individual who'd died in her home, and also fraudulently created a fictitious person based on her deceased grandmother.

Fraudulently registered dead and fictitious voters

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week that Jennifer Hill was arrested and charged by Delaware County prosecutors with 40 counts of election fraud-related crimes, including four counts of felony forgery, for which she could be subject to up to 10 years each in prison if convicted, along with a plethora of various misdemeanor crimes.

According to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer, Hill worked this past election cycle as a paid canvasser for a voting rights advocacy organization known as the New Pennsylvania Project, which is focused on registering migrants, minorities, and young people as voters.

Hill, using a special mobile app provided by the state, submitted more than 300 voter registration forms over several months, of which at least 129 were rejected. An investigation was launched when authorities discovered multiple submissions contained variations of the same name and addresses, at which point it was further realized that she'd tried to register dead and fictitious people to vote, according to WCAU.

"She did register a fraudulent person" because of a "gap" in the system, DA Stollsteimer explained in a press conference, but "did not take any further step. That fictitious person did not vote in the 2024 election. But that shows you how we still have gaps in our system that we need to have the legislature address."

"We don’t know from the other 129 that were non-verifiable, how many of those were made-up names," he added. "The Pennsylvania Department of State, I believe, needs to take a look at all of the ones that were submitted by this individual and frankly, I think they should look at all of the ones that were submitted by this organization. It could be just one bad canvasser, but they should take a look and make sure that all of those people are legitimate registrations."

New Pennsylvania Project insists it did nothing wrong

There was some speculation from prosecutors that Hill may have submitted fraudulent voter registration forms in an effort to bolster her numbers and earn certain incentives and higher pay for her work, per The Inquirer, but the New Pennsylvania Project group insisted that wasn't the case with Hill, who they asserted was fired earlier in the year when the problem was first discovered by authorities.

In a statement provided to WCAU, group CEO Kadia Kenner said the organization "DOES NOT provide financial incentives or bonuses for voter registration application collection. Our employees have no quota to meet, and hourly wages paid to part-time canvassing employees remain the same no matter the number of voter registration applications collected."

She further noted that the organization had been notified of the issue, at which time "we suspended the staff member pending investigation. An internal investigation was launched, and the organization paused our voter registration programs in several regions pending the outcome of our investigation."

Clear partisan tilt of voter registration organization

Fox News reported that though the New Pennsylvania Project claims it is a nonpartisan organization, the numbers seem to suggest otherwise -- as did the description of its main focus by The Inquirer.

Indeed, of the roughly 10,000 voter registration applications submitted by the group, almost half were for Democrats, around one-third were for independents or third-party voters, and less than one-fifth were for Republicans.

Given DA Stollsteimer's suggestion that the organization be investigated alongside Hill for other fraudulent activities, it will be interesting to see if such an additional probe is launched and whether the group is exposed for wrongdoing or vindicated as being above reproach.