A county in the center battlefields of pennsylvania is investigating roughly 2,500 voter registration forms that were flagged for potential fraud, the Pennsylvania Department of State confirmed to Fox News Digital on Friday.

The office confirmed it has been in contact with Lancaster County since last week, after it reported receiving two separate batches of apparently fraudulent voter registration forms.

“Suspected false voter registration forms were submitted to the Board of Elections in two batches at or near the submission deadline,” the board said in a statement on Friday.

Both the local district attorney’s office and the Lancaster County Board of Elections are working to review and review the applications.

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In a statement Friday, county elections officials said the concerns were first noted “during staff’s normal process of reviewing and entering applications into (a Pennsylvania database) and law enforcement was alerted.

The forms flagged as suspicious had either false names, duplicate handwriting or unverifiable or incorrect identifying information, they added — prompting county election officials to immediately notify both the Pennsylvania Department of State and the state attorney general’s office and launch a criminal investigation.

At a news conference Friday, Lancaster County officials urged calm and stressed that the election system was doing what it was designed to do to prevent fraud. The applications were not limited to a single party but were collected in various places across the county.

“The fact of the matter is, we’ve stopped this,” Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino, a Republican who chairs the county Board of Elections, told reporters. “This is not right. It’s illegal. It’s immoral. And we found it, and we’re going to take care of it.”

An election worker flattens ballots during the 2024 Pennsylvania primary election at the City of Philadelphia’s Election Warehouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The path to a majority in the House will go through at least four Pennsylvania districts including those of Democrat Susan Wild and Republican Scott Perry, who will soon learn the identity of his November opponents. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ultimately, he said, “the people of Lancaster County can be confident in how we conduct our elections.”

The Pennsylvania Department of State applauded Lancaster County Friday “for their diligent work in detecting this potential fraud and bringing it to the attention of law enforcement.”

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“As the county’s efforts demonstrate, there are several safeguards in place to ensure the integrity of our elections, and Pennsylvanians can trust that the November election will be safe, secure, free and fair,” the office told Fox News.

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