An October 10 formal arraignment date has been set for Cheryl Lynn Blake, a Republican Committee person from Richboro who was arrested for alleged voter fraud in August.
Bucks County Magisterial Judge Brian M. Marriott released Blake on ROR (Released on your Own Recognizance) bail at a preliminary hearing September 11, court documents show.
Blake is listed as a member of the Northampton Township Republican Committee. Efforts to reach Blake for comment were unsuccessful.
“Election integrity matters. When a Republican Committee person in Bucks County committed voter fraud by requesting a ballot for her deceased father, our system was able to immediately catch her in the act,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, Jr. in an email statement.”No one is above the law, we will not tolerate people who try to cheat in our elections, and we must hold everyone accountable no matter their party.”
Concerns surrounding Republican District Attorney Jennifer Schorn’s role in prosecuting the case have surfaced, as she has received support for her current reelection campaign from the local Republican Committee, according to Harvie.
“I would have expected that she [Schorn] would recuse her office from the prosecution of this Republican Committee person in this election fraud case,” Harvie said.
According to previously published reports by Levittown Now.com and NBC Philadelphia.com, Blake came under investigation for a completed mail-in voter ballot application on April 16, 2025. The mail-in ballot application was for Blake’s father, Robert Seamans, who died on April 26, 2024, according to his obituary. She also completed a second application for herself, news outlets reported.
“We need a DA who will reject Donald Trump’s vision of leniency for your friends and persecution of your enemies. When one of her top supporters was arrested for committing fraud in DA Schorn’s own election, Schorn swept this under the rug and let her friend go home without having to post any bail,” said Joe Khan, an attorney and Democrat, who is challenging incumbent Republican Schorn to become district attorney in November’s election.
Stephen Loney, senior supervising attorney at American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, said in an email the incident is evidence that Pennsylvania has “robust systems in place” to catch would-be voter fraud.
“Anti-democracy politicians will often use these rare incidents to justify further restrictions on voting. But the truth is elections in Pennsylvania have never been more safe, secure and accurate,” Loney said.
Local attorney Austin “Rusty” Allen said “on its face, this would seem to present an apparent if not actual and disqualifying conflict of interest. Given her recent history of referring high profile matters to the [Pennsylvania] attorney general, I would expect that DA Schorn would either recuse her office from this matter or provide a detailed explanation as to how the public could have confidence in the integrity of her office’s resolution of this matter.”
“We need a DA who will reject Donald Trump’s vision of leniency for your friends and persecution of your enemies. When one of her top supporters was arrested for committing fraud in DA Schorn’s own election, Schorn swept this under the rug and let her friend go home without having to post any bail.” – Joe Khan, Democratic Candidate for Bucks County District Attorney
Allen is an attorney and president at Law Offices of W. Austin Allen, II, P.C. in Warminster.
“If the DA can’t be trusted to be impartial in this case, she should defer to another prosecutor – which is exactly what she did when we needed her to investigate the Sunoco pipeline leak and alleged corruption in the Central Bucks School District,” Khan said.
Allen noted Schorn did refer the Central Bucks allegations of the abuse of autistic students at Jamison Elementary School to the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.
“Schorn is running for election. The personal interest impacted by her office’s prosecution of a case, and given the fact she has referred some other high profile cases…I don’t see the downside of referring to it. To my knowledge this case has not been referred out,” Allen said.
