HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania man faces federal charges that he voted in Florida and Pennsylvania for the 2020 presidential election, and twice in Pennsylvania during the November 2022 election.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Philadelphia said Friday it has filed five charges against Philip C. Pulley, 62, of Huntingdon Valley, alleging he violated federal election law by falsely registering to vote, voting twice and engaging in voter fraud.
It is unclear how often double voting occurs or how often it is processed. But a review published in December 2021 by the Associated Press found fewer than 475 potential cases of voter fraud in the six swing states contested by former President Donald Trump in 2020 elections. These cases were too few to have made a difference in his defeat in re-election.
Pulley is accused of using a false Philadelphia address and Social Security number when in 2020 he registered in Philadelphia while he was already registered to vote in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and Broward County, Florida. That year, he requested a mail-in ballot in Philadelphia and voted in Montgomery and Broward, according to the criminal charges.
The charging document also states that in November 2022, with a U.S. Senate seat on the ballot, he voted in Philadelphia and Montgomery counties.
Federal prosecutors say Pulley had a history of using his Huntingdon Valley address in Montgomery County to vote from 2005 until last year. In 2018, they claim, he registered in Broward County at an address in Lighthouse Point, Florida.
Pennsylvania voting records indicate that Pulley was registered as a Republican in Montgomery County since the 1990s until he switched to the Democratic Party last year. A few years earlier, in February 2020, he registered as a Democrat in Philadelphia — where he voted in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 general elections, records show.
Pulley did not have an attorney listed in court records and his phone number could not be located.
