NEW INFO: Five Bucks County Republicans who circulated former candidate Dasha Pruett’s nominating petitions now tell @levittownnow they were not behind the forged signatures on her election documents.
Four of the five circulators have signed affidavits and some plan to go to law enforcement with their concerns. This follows shoe-leather reporting on the forged signatures last week.
Circulators who signed affidavits and provided statements said signatures they did not collect appeared on forms after they turned them over to Pruett's campaign. The campaign then submitted the petitions to the state.
Some of the circulators said signatures submitted with their names attached included dates they were not available, including one day when a circulator was in Atlantic City.
Pruett previously told me she should have vetted circulators better and she was "troubled" by the forgeries. Her statements apparently upset some of the circulators who believed they were wrongly being accused.
"None of us placed those forgeries on the petitions prior to turning them in to the campaign," circulator and Republican Committeewoman Audrey Strein said.
"It appears as though these petitions were subsequently altered with false signatures. The signatures were not my doing and they suspiciously all have the same handwriting," said Liz Diehl, a Republican who circulated petitions.
.@levittownnow has several additional new details, an email from March 17 from a circulator raising concern, and full text of the affidavits and statements in our latest story.