By MARIE ALBIGES and TOM LISI
Spotlight PA
Dec 25, 2020
Dec 25, 2020
Thad Hall, Mercer County director of elections and voter registration, sorts through mail-in ballot applications at the Mercer County Courthouse.
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HARRISBURG â In the weeks before the general election, Sara May-Silfeeâs office was overwhelmed. Phone calls from voters were incessant. Lines of people formed outside the building to apply for and cast mail ballots. In one instance, she said, impatient voters began chants outside her office that the waiting times amounted to voter suppression.
The Monroe County elections director even got in the habit of closing her officeâs shades at night, she said, because voters would knock on the windows, as late as 9, looking for assistance.