Pennsylvania man accused of voting in 2 states faces federal charges

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — A man is facing federal charges after he voted in both Florida and Pennsylvania in the 2020 presidential election, and twice in Pennsylvania in 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, for violating federal election law by falsely registering to vote, voting twice and committing election fraud.

It’s unclear how common double voting is or how often it’s prosecuted. But a December 2021 investigation by The Associated Press found fewer than 475 possible cases of voter fraud in the six battleground states that former President Donald Trump is fighting over in the Elections 2020There were too few cases to make a difference in his re-election defeat.

Pulley is accused of using a false Philadelphia address and Social Security number when he registered to vote in Philadelphia in 2020 while 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 both Montgomery and Broward, according to the criminal charges.

The indictment also alleges that in November 2022, when a U.S. Senate seat was up for election, he voted in both Philadelphia and Montgomery County.

Federal prosecutors say Pulley has a history of using his Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County, address to vote from 2005 through last year. In 2018, they allege, he registered in Broward County from an address in Lighthouse Point, Florida.

Pennsylvania voting records show that Pulley registered as a Republican in Montgomery County from 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 2021, 2022 and 2023, records show.

Pulley did not have an attorney listed in court records and his phone number could not be found.