Ballot dropbox concerns in Luzerne County, PA

[1srelluc]

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Luzerne County Elections Official reported someone trying to drop off multiple ballots.

This happened Wednesday afternoon at Penn Place. Eyewitness News talked to Board of Elections Chair Denise Williams about how the incident is being handled.

Williams says a woman tried to put four mail-in ballots in the drop box at Penn Place while Director of Elections Michael Susek and another employee were emptying it.

Susek, who reported the incident, says he explained she could only drop off her own ballot unless she had the signed affidavit to drop off one other person’s if they are unable. She didn’t have it and said she didn’t have time to go to the election office to get one.

Susek reported the woman started to walk away but turned around, threw all four into the bag, and immediately left. Susek was able to separate the four ballots which are being held in a secure location.

“They’ll be for review but in the meantime, it was determined by the whole board that would be something that needs to be referred to the office of D.A., like any situation like this would be,” said Denise Williams, Chair, Luzerne County Board of Elections.

There is a security camera at the dropbox and mail-in ballots require a return address so investigators should be able to identify this person. Whether this is an issue of security or an issue of people just not being aware of the rules, it depends on who you ask.

Ballot dropbox concerns in Luzerne County

I'm assuming the ballots were for the upcoming primaries.

 

[two_iron]

We need harsh punishment for this shit. Start at 10 years, and work up to the death penalty for repeat offenders. There's not enough fear in the process.

 

[Oddball]

Drop some gasoline and a lit math into them.

 

[toobfreak]

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Luzerne County Elections Official reported someone trying to drop off multiple ballots.

This happened Wednesday afternoon at Penn Place. Eyewitness News talked to Board of Elections Chair Denise Williams about how the incident is being handled.

Williams says a woman tried to put four mail-in ballots in the drop box at Penn Place while Director of Elections Michael Susek and another employee were emptying it.

Susek, who reported the incident, says he explained she could only drop off her own ballot unless she had the signed affidavit to drop off one other person’s if they are unable. She didn’t have it and said she didn’t have time to go to the election office to get one.

Susek reported the woman started to walk away but turned around, threw all four into the bag, and immediately left. Susek was able to separate the four ballots which are being held in a secure location.

“They’ll be for review but in the meantime, it was determined by the whole board that would be something that needs to be referred to the office of D.A., like any situation like this would be,” said Denise Williams, Chair, Luzerne County Board of Elections.

There is a security camera at the dropbox and mail-in ballots require a return address so investigators should be able to identify this person. Whether this is an issue of security or an issue of people just not being aware of the rules, it depends on who you ask.

Ballot dropbox concerns in Luzerne County

I'm assuming the ballots were for the upcoming primaries.

Same old bullshit again. It was my understanding you could drop off ballots for yourself and immediate family, but that might vary by state, and just who polices this stuff?

This is all bullshit. Shameful bullshit. If you want to drop off a ballot, why not mail in the mail in ballots? And if they are going to have drop boxes, in lieu of recent problems, they ought to have "hours" and a person stationed at the box which collects the ballots, determines one ballot per voter, and that the ballot matches the ID of the person dropping it off! The registry ought to be computerized so that the person could scratch that person off the database as having voted or to see if they had already voted already and were a legit voter for that location.

This is all so easy, there really is no excuse for our election system other than those running it are idiots and corrupt and want it this way to cheat.

 

[1srelluc]

I liked the excuse.

 

[jwoodie]

Mail-in ballots should be mailed in or personally submitted at a polling station. Anything else is an invitation to fraudulent voting.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The citizens in the states that allow ballot drop boxes should sue for their Voting Rights.