Pa. Secretary of State Al Schmidt sent a letter to Lancaster County Board of Elections arguing the county had violated state and federal law by blocking college students from registering to vote.
Pa. Secretary of State Schmidt says Lancaster County violated state law in turning away student voters
County election officials had been improperly rejecting students’ voter registrations because they did not have a Pennsylvania driver’s license or were already registered in another state, according to the letter, dated Monday. In some cases, Schmidt wrote, county staff were leaving applications in pending status for long periods of time.
In a public meeting Tuesday, the Lancaster County commissioners argued that Schmidt’s letter was based on false information and that, while there had been disputes over that student’s ballot, all other applications were being processed as quickly as possible.
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