March 18, 2026
PHILADELPHIA – Today, All Voting is Local named Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons the most dangerous election denier in Pennsylvania as part of its list of the country’s top 10 worst election deniers. The list is a record of the nation’s top 10 federal, state, and local election deniers who currently hold positions of power and could keep eligible voters from voting and block their votes from being counted—all within the larger context of President Donald Trump’s increasingly bold, brazen, and deceitful attempts to claim greater power and control election outcomes before voters even head to the polls. In response, All Voting is Local Pennsylvania State Director Deborah Hinchey issued the following statement:
“Josh Parsons has made a career out of denying the will of voters in Lancaster County. Coupled with his previous refusal to recertify a previous election despite its results complying with Commonwealth law, his extreme efforts to eliminate drop boxes and restrict vote-by-mail show the risk he can pose to voting access. Instead of giving people in Lancaster County more access to the ballot, Parsons has used the same tired lies and misinformation to try to make it harder for people to vote, and he is definitely someone we must pay attention to ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as we demand that he and his colleagues expand, not deplete, voter access.”
Background on Josh Parsons:
Parsons is a noted election denier who has taken actions, such as removing the county’s only drop box over election “integrity” and refusing to include undated ballots during the 2022 primaries, claiming that voters deserve “accurate” election results on election night. More notably, in the 2022 primary election in Lancaster County, he refused to recertify a result that complied with the law and included all legal votes, leading to a court order requiring compliance. The board initially certified an election result that excluded ballots that, although received in time, lacked a handwritten date.