Bucks County a microcosm of election chaos with poor communication, viral misinfo and lawfare
DOYLESTOWN — Volunteers outside the Bucks County Board of Elections office on Thursday were in a celebratory mood, especially the Republicans. A recent legal victory had extended the deadline for “on-demand mail ballot voting” for three extra days, until Nov. 1. That meant hundreds of people, many of whom had been told they would not be able to earlier, could request and submit a mail ballot at the office ahead of Election Day.
One Republican volunteer marched up and down the line that had formed carrying portraits of former President Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president, to mild applause.
The extension was the result of a lawsuit brought by Trump’s campaign against the Bucks County Board of Elections. On Oct. 30, a judge ruled that the decision to block some voters from participating in “on-demand mail ballot voting” before the process’ effective deadline violated Pennsylvania’s election code.
For their part, the Bucks County government said in a written statement on Tuesday that no one had been blocked from voting. They said they told only the voters who arrived at the election offices too late to make it through the line that they would have to come back. But voters could still submit applications for mail ballots, which they could pick up at the office later or have mailed to their homes.
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