POLL PLACE ISSUES & ELECTION REFORM

POLL PLACE ISSUES  (as of 5-15 )
Election Protection hotline, 1-866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683), for  problems at the polls or questions about voting.
              ie:  voter registration, ID requirements, election procedures, voting machine irregularities, etc
              Interactive website; and a real-time data-base on reported problems, www.ourvotelive.org
              You will find reports/calls from local polls .   You are urged to report irregularities 

Election Court at the Montgomery County Courthouse has  judges  at the ready to rule on a wide variety of elections complaints An individual voter can make an appeal but might be best to bring a lawyer, or  someone knowledgable in the election code

The Election Day Complaint Team at the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office  610-278-3146.. They  work with county and local law enforcement and others to protect election integrity - and investigate and, where appropriate, prosecute violations of election law.           

Violations of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) can be reported on forms available at http://www.votespa.com/portal/server.pt/community/complaints/12589 This is for issues regarding voting system standards, accessibility issues for individuals with disabilities, provisional voting, voter information requirements or the statewide voter registration database.  Voters don’t have the right to go to court to enforce violations of HAVA, but a complaint may be settled after the fact, which may particularly help in the future.

The Dept of State complaint form  is at https://www.pavoterservices.state.pa.us/Pages/ReportElectionComplaints.aspx  for registered voters. The PA Department of State, which oversees all elections in the Commonwealth, says it has no jurisdiction in these matters and will refer them to the relevant county election board.
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Emergency Paper Ballots   are to be issued if half or more of the machines are not working, the judge of elections will  provide them.   

Provisional Ballots  are for those whose eligibility is in question - they will be verified before being counted

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 Please read the whole Citizens Call article here :
http://www.citizenscall.net/county-beat/what-if-things-go-wrong-at-the-polls/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+citizenscallnet+%28Citizens%27+Call%29

ELECTION REFORM NEEDED
Click here to see reforms that are needed - posting polling rules, monitoring behavior, publishing rules for candidates to run, etc

 

Election Reform Network   - local irregularities & election issues

 

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Abington Township revamped the entire Township website at the end of 2015 and broke all the links to the information. In 2017, under Richard Manfredi, someone inexperienced was assigned to redo the entire website again. The public was not asked what problems they would like to see fixed. Their new plan was not well thought out, so everything was very hard to find and there were giant paragraphs you had to slog through in order to find the pertinent one or two lines that you needed. Or if you were lucky enough to even find the meetings and agenda page, there was (and still is) a whole page of nonsense on top, so you think you're on the wrong page. Zoom limks are burrid in a giant paragraph, so people can't find them to attend the meeting. They know about these  problems - but have just decided to ignore us.... for the whole of Richard Manfredi's time here (with Tom Hecker's consent).

 Now, in 2025, we are due to get a new Manager, and there are funds put aside to, once again, upgrade the Township website. We can only hope for a fresh chance at fixing some of these things, as our Township website is the best tool we have for communication and should be an easy, user friendly site for all.

We need volunteers willing to work together to help improve the Township site that everyone has to use,  to make it functional and accessible. 

 We will be repairing our broken links in this Abington Citizens site, too, and fixing some of our many, many typo's as much as is possible. (Yes, it's quite evident that, unlike the Township, WE don't have a paid staff of 275+ or a $93 million budget).

 So...please let us know if you find broken links or typos. Send us the URL and/or and the name of the page it is on, so we can correct it.
Thanks for the help.

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