An order of nuns is fighting back after a GOP operative accused its monastery of being at the center of a scheme to defraud the election in Pennsylvania.
Republican Cliff Maloney publicly stated that the home of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie in Pennsylvania had dozens of voter registrations — yet nobody lived there.
In reality, 55 sisters live there full time — and 53 of them are legally registered to vote.
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“To be unjustly accused of voter fraud is just really disgusting, ugly,” Sister Stephanie Schmidt, the order’s prioress, told The Washington Post.
“A simple web search would alert him to our active presence in a number of ministries in Erie.”
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Maloney had posted to nearly 58,000 followers on X that the monastery was an empty building that was being used for fraud.
He said his army of canvassers had “discovered” it when they knocked at the door. “NO ONE lives there,” he exclaimed.