Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin takes part in a forum for Republican candidates for governor of Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Camp Hill, Pa., Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Doug Mastriano, the Trump-endorsed frontrunner in Pennsylvania’s GOP gubernatorial primary, has repeatedly said he has already picked out the secretary of state to help him force all voters to re-register in Pennsylvania – only he won’t reveal who it is.

“As governor, I get to appoint the secretary of state. And I have a voting reform-minded individual who’s been traveling the nation and knows voting reform extremely well,” Mastriano said on Bannon’s War Room last month. “That individual has agreed to be my secretary of state.”

Mastriano’s team has not responded to the question of who he’s picked, despite him saying in a March interview with Altoona-based WRTA that he already has “a team of people that would work for this individual.”

The secretary of state — chosen by the governor in Pennsylvania rather than elected by voters — is in charge of overseeing election integrity. Mastriano — someone who advocated for overturning the 2020 presidential election, and who was outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection — said he plans to take full advantage of his appointment to help make Pennsylvanians reregister to vote. That move is illegal under the National Voter Registration Act.

“We’re going to clean it up,” he said last month on The John Fredericks Show. “I might even have to reset voter registration and start all over again across the state.”

He also plans to use his power to “decertify or certify any machines or anything else involved with elections,” he said in March, again on The John Federicks Show. “With the stroke of a pen, I can decertify every single machine in the state.”

Despite his fixation on fair voting, Mastriano was subpoenaed in February by the U.S. House committee investigating the Capitol riot because, according to a statement from committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), he was “part of a plan to arrange for an alternate slate of electors” meant to wipe out election results and let state lawmakers decide which candidate should receive the state’s electoral votes.

He also has an odd admiration of Nancy Pelosi.

He is expected to win the nomination for governor in today’s primary election.