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durablend

(7,460 posts)
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 03:56 PM Nov 2012

Are they going to try to steal PA?

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/11/pennsylvania_has_250-300_polli.html

(if I excerpted too much per guidelines, please advise...tried to just accent the important parts)

State officials would not identify which sites remained without power since Sandy hit Monday. The bulk of the power outages were in the southeast, Lehigh Valley and northeast.


Reliable Democratic areas--how nice!

...He said officials are concerned that releasing a list might mislead voters. "There is concern this list is so fluid, and some places have generators (we don't know all of those by any means) that it may not even be completely accurate," Ruman said.


For those that remain without power on Election Day, county officials can move precincts, use paper ballots, bring in generators or rely on the machines' batteries for juice. Officials have reported conflicting information about the machines' battery power, with estimates running from 2½ to 6 hours.


Doesn't give me confidence that everything is going to be on the up-and-up (especially with you-know-who as governor). Are they going to wait until Tuesday to post a list of alternate polling places? How conveeeeeeeenient to depress turnout!
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