An order of nuns living at a monastery in Pennsylvania is firing back at claims of voter fraud after a GOP operative alleged that there were 53 registered voters at their address but “no one lives there.”
Cliff Maloney, the founder of The Pennsylvania Chase, a group claiming to ‘match the Democrat’s tactics for mail-in ballot success and securing a significant victory for liberty-loving Republicans in the 2024 election,’ wrote in a post on X/Twitter that a member of his team discovered the address in Erie, Pennsylvania with 53 voter registrations, but claimed that “NO ONE” lives there.
“We knocked on the door because a Republican mail-in ballot is unreturned,” he continued. “Our attorney’s are reviewing this right now. We will not let the Dems count on illegal votes.”
However, that address is home to the Benedictine Sisters of Erie who made it clear that they exist and lives at the address Maloney claims is unoccupied.
“We want to call Cliff Maloney to account for his blatantly false post that accuses our sisters of fraud. We do live at Mount Saint Benedict Monastery and a simple web search would alert him to our active presence in a number of ministries in Erie,” Sister Stephanie Schmidt said in a statement.
Schmidt says they have no issue with canvassing and door-knocking but using “false information” to “discredit differing views of affiliations” is where they have a problem.
“We want to be on public record as having called out this fraud so that if the outcome of next month’s election is contested in Pennsylvania our integrity will not be called into question,” she added.
Schmidt said the sisters are planning legal action over what they’ve called “public defamation.”
Maloney told The Washington Post that a door-knocker went to the monastery and reported back that he “had a hard time because all I kept seeing was a church but no house.”
Maloney also claimed that a woman told him nobody lived there.
But, Schmidt said nobody at the monastery reported speaking to anybody about votes.
“To be unjustly accused of voter fraud is just really disgusting, ugly,” Schmidt told The Post.
