Veronica Degraffenreid, a former senior election official in North Carolina, became Gov. Tom Wolf’s nominee to head of his Department of State, which oversees elections in Pennsylvania.
The Department of State disclosed that it had no system in place to prevent such an error, which has devastated clergy sexual abuse survivors.
Statewide, 4,640 Republican voters flipped and became Democrats last month, a period in which only 2,956 Democrats re-registered as Republicans.
Wolf offered few specifics on how his administration will help counties deal with the huge volume of mailed ballots.
