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RandySF

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Tue Oct 22, 2024, 12:17 AM Oct 22

State's top election official says Lancaster County elections office is misleading voters

In a sharply worded letter to Lancaster County commissioners Monday, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt said county election workers had been delivering “an inaccurate description of Pennsylvania law” to voters, misleading them about their eligibility to cast a ballot in the Nov. 5 general election.

The top Pennsylvania elections official also said he had reason to believe the county had delayed recording some voter registration applications into a state database until Monday — after the issue was made public by local reporting — thereby depriving voters their legal right to challenge any rejections.

Some of those applications were received by the elections office as far back as September, Schmidt wrote.

“The information thus received by the Department (of State) indicates that not only had voters been improperly denied their registration, but also deprived of a key procedure for challenging that erroneous decision,” Schmidt wrote.




https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/states-top-election-official-says-lancaster-county-elections-office-is-misleading-voters/article_1720331a-9004-11ef-b4fe-936e7d52cf7b.html

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State's top election official says Lancaster County elections office is misleading voters (Original Post) RandySF Oct 22 OP
Lancaster is one of those bamagal62 Oct 22 #1

bamagal62

(3,668 posts)
1. Lancaster is one of those
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 12:57 AM
Oct 22

Places that the city is very democratic and the suburbs are not. The city has a huge Puerto Rican population. I imagine these are the people they are targeting.

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