A top Pennsylvania Republican state senator called Thursday for the resignation of Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar, accusing her of failing to ensure an orderly presidential election in the Keystone State.
Doug Mastriano, chairman of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee, claimed in a lengthy letter to Boockvar that "Pennsylvanians no longer feel secure in casting their vote."
"The nucleus of any free society is confidence that each citizen's vote will count," Mastriano added. "Nothing is more crucial to Americans than confidence that our voices will be heard through voting."
A retired Army colonel, Mastriano wrote that he had directed NATO's Joint Intelligence Center in Afghanistan, work that included providing "oversight and security to Afghan elections -- a country that had never witnessed an honest election."
Mastriano added that the NATO apparatus helped ensure an election that was both safe and fair, with various security measures in place to ensure one vote per legal voter.
"I wish I could say the same of elections in Pennsylvania during your time as the Secretary of the Commonwealth," he wrote, adding that he and many Pennsylvania voters have "lost confidence" in the secretary's leadership.