{"id":28493,"date":"2025-11-08T08:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28493\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:55:16","slug":"potential-ballot-tampering-reported-in-scranton-referred-to-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28493\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential ballot tampering reported in Scranton, referred to DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762592116_134_image\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=3HGPS5_16KrPx5I00\" width=\"1060\" height=\"707\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, PA \u2013 The Lackawanna County Bureau of Elections released a statement Wednesday confirming they are investigating a report of potential ballot tampering that occurred at a polling location in the City of Scranton during Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged incident took place at the Jackson Heights polling place in West Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the Bureau became aware of the situation after a Facebook user posted a claim on Tuesday stating they were handed a ballot that already had a name written in the write-in space for Judge of Elections. The post included a photograph of the ballot the voter claims to have received.<\/p>\n<p>After conducting a preliminary review of the evidence and the claim, the Lackawanna County Board of Elections has officially referred the matter to the District Attorney\u2019s office for a full criminal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, PA \u2013 The Lackawanna County Bureau of Elections released a statement Wednesday confirming they are investigating a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2376,182,2375,12841,18476,18477,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-28493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-breaking-news","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-newsradio-wilk","tag-potential-ballot-tampering-reported-in-scranton","tag-referred-to-da","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}