Many college campuses place a voting site on-campus. College students often do not have cars, and a large number of voters are concentrated in a small area.
Today the Morning Call ran an article on the vote by the Berks County Commissioners to move a polling place from Keystone Hall on campus to the Maxatawny Township Building several miles away.
The County’s Chief Operating Officer (I am not familiar with that particular office) said that state law, where possible, says polling places must be in public buildings. Evidently he does not consider a campus building in a state university to be a public building.
By the way, the Berks County Commissioners are majority Republican. The article also noted that in in 2012, 1,636 people voted at the Kutztown location, 60% of them for Obama. The Chair of the Commissioners said the move was not for political reasons.
I wonder if his pants caught on fire as he was making that statement.
It is amazing that all voting changes are being made by republicans. It always leads to voter suppression.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, someone should challenge there decision and prove to them that it is a public place.
The article said that a petition was being circulated in Berks County. It has almost 200 signatures. I don't know if it will do any good.
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