State's top election official says Lancaster County elections office is misleading voters [View all]

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.




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