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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA friend of mine in Fayette County Pennsylvania posted this on Facebook at 2:30 pm...
"Ok voter suppression. I went to vote at the Upper Tyrone Municipal building. They told me that I had requested a mail in ballot, so in their books they have me as voted already. I did not request nor receive a mail in ballot. I told them that and they said then you have to vote with a provisional ballot. I said okay, when do they count provisional votes? They said in two to three weeks. They told me I was the 123rd person that had this same situation. I told them this is a form of voter suppression, voter fraud. They said take it up with your County Commissioner. I'm sure it was all Democrats that this happened to and this was a scheme the republicans came up with. I am not happy, this entire voting atmosphere is infused with crooked trump mindset and that is bullshit."
Several people gave him the number of and urged him to call the ACLU election protection hotline. Upper Tyrone Township is a municipality with around 2,000 residents in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Based on census data from 2010, 23% of the population was under the age of 18 which would mean that hypothetically, there would be approximately 1,460 eligible voters. If all of those eligible voters went to the polls, it would mean that with five and a half hours before the polls close, 12.5% were not able to have their votes recorded today. And we all know that there will never be 100% turnout, so that makes the percentage of unrecorded votes even higher.
MyOwnPeace
(16,924 posts)It is a fact that the Klan is still alive and well in Fayette County, PA.
Freedomofspeech
(4,223 posts)strongermessage
(284 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,643 posts)strongermessage
(284 posts)BComplex
(8,029 posts)They'll have a lawyer there in a half hour, if it's like other people who have had problems around the country.