While he bolstered Trump’s unsubstantiated story, Patrick
blamed Democrats for casting doubt on the election results
by not passing more restrictive voting laws.
“Trust me, there are mistakes that have been made,”
Patrick, a staunch Republican and Trump surrogate in Texas,
said on Fox 26 Houston in mid-November 2020. “The Democrats in Milwaukee and Detroit and Philadelphia and Atlanta brought this on themselves.”
Within weeks, however, a handful of cases of alleged illegal voting had popped up in Pennsylvania. Most involved voters, at least
three Republicans and one Democrat, casting or attempting to cast ballots for dead relatives.
The fifth involved Ralph Thurman, a 72-year-old Republican who Frank turned in after seeing him vote twice on Election Day, once for himself and once for his son, who was a registered Democrat.