People stood in line for hours on Friday at Bucks County, Pennsylvania, election offices waiting for their chance to participate in the election. Some were outraged that the line was so slow and the county did not have more election workers on hand.
“They opened at 8:00,” Pat Poprik, chair of the Bucks County Republican Committee told The Federalist. “People were there at 8:30 and by 12:30 they had not voted. … The average wait was like four or five hours.”
Some social media posts claimed the long lines were purposeful and were evidence of the county attempting to suppress voters, but Poprik does not think so.
“I don’t think it’s voter suppression. I think it was inconvenient. They were not disenfranchised. They were still able to vote, albeit inconvenient and a long time, but they weren’t not allowed. It wasn’t like Tuesday when they put that placard down and said you can’t vote. That was disenfranchisement, and that’s what the judge addressed, and rightly so.”
It’s after 7 p.m. & voters are STILL waiting for their ballots.
Was this intentional in a county that we recently flipped from 🔵🔜🔴?
📍Levittown, PA
📍Bucks County pic.twitter.com/LV2sW8bCB6
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The Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign went to the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas this week, complaining the county’s action of turning voters away before the 5:00 p.m. deadline on Tuesday violated the election code.
The deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania was
