A group of Pennsylvania nuns is fighting back after a conservative voter organizer publicly accused them on social media of falsifying their voter records to help fraudulently swing the presidential election in the Democrats’ favor.
The Benedictine Sisters of Erie said Wednesday that they are considering legal counsel after dozens of nuns were accused of falsely identifying the monastery as their legal residence in their voter registrations when it is, in fact, where they live.
“To be unjustly accused of voter fraud is just really disgusting, ugly,” Sister Stephanie Schmidt, the prioress, told The Washington Post of the allegations made on X by Cliff Maloney, who founded the conservative group PA Chase.
Maloney’s posts have resulted in the monastery receiving complaints from across the country, Schmidt said.
The nuns insist that they reside at Mount Saint Benedict Monastery in Erie, Pennsylvania, and that they have no evidence that someone who worked for Cliff Maloney actually spoke with them about their voting records.