NORTHERN TIER, Pa. (WETM) — The Pennsylvania Presidential Primary Elections are hours away as election stations prepare in Tioga and Bradford Counties. If you’re looking to vote in person tomorrow, April 23, polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. If you’re unsure where your nearest polling place is, you can go […]
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. TANNER MONDOK | Herald
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.
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HARRISBURG In the weeks before the general election, Sara May-Silfee’s 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 office’s shades at night, she said, because voters would knock on the windows, as late as 9, looking for assistance.
“It was a nightmare,” May-Silfee said. “Everything was a nightmare.”