Nuns Hit Back After ‘Disgusting’ GOP Voter Fraud Accusation

The Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, say the allegation has resulted in their monastery receiving complaints from across the country.

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 nightmare follows Maloney alleging Tuesday that one of his door knockers had visited the nuns’ monastery to check on the status of an unreturned mail-in ballot that was registered to a Republican. While there, someone on the property told him that no one lives there, despite 53 voters — the vast majority listed as “liberal” — being registered as residing at the address.