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By Mike McGann, Staff Writer, Chester County Press, 9/3/10 The furor over Chester County’s settlement of a federal lawsuit over the movement of the Lower Oxford East polling place – after moving the polling place away from Lincoln University led to waits as long as eight hours during the 2008 election – isn’t going away, [...]

letter, Daily Local News, August 30, 2010 [N.b., the answer to "How much the county (taxpayers) paid the Lamb McErlane law firm to defend it, including for the plaintiffs' legal expenses" is now known: the bill was $71,544 to Lamb McErlane plus $60,000 to plaintiff's attorneys; however, the County pays "only" $50,000 after insurance. These [...]

Chester County Press, 8/28/10, p. 5A Reprehensible. Stupid. Horribly wasteful. These are just a few of the things that people are saying in the aftermath of a settlement by Chester County that returns the Lower Oxford East polling place to Lincoln University. Reprehensible because moving the polling place prior to the 2008 election was little [...]

from Chester County Press, 8/19/10: By Uncle Irvin The announcement yesterday that the Civil Rights voting suit has been settled represents a significant rebuke of the leadership of Republican Commissioners Terence Farrell and Carol Aichele. It was those two, not Democrat Commissioner Kathy Cozzone, who voted not to change the Lower Oxford East polling place [...]

by Mike McGann, Chester County Press, 8/19/10: Chester County has settled a federal lawsuit brought by five Lincoln University students alleging that the county had violated The Voting Rights Act of 1965, intentionally making it hard for African-American students to vote in 2008 by moving their polling place off campus — resulting in waits of [...]

[N.b. this settlement vindicates those who complained, both before and after the November 2008 election, that an inadequate voting place was retained in Lower Oxford East for partisan political reasons. However, the article below does not clarify that the ChesCo Board of Elections (= Board of Commissioners) made the decision not to move to a [...]

by Chris Bowman, 6/6/10 This fall’s Senatorial race will not be decided by incumbency as most congressional elections are. Nor will this race be decided upon any singular issue like gun control, abortion, or gay marriage. The contrast between political parties at present exceeds the myopic focus of any past solitary issue. Instead, the recent [...]

excerpt from “A Reason To Show Up” by Karen Feridun in CommonSense2, June 2010: …in the 2000 Census [n]on-voting respondents were asked to explain why it is they don’t vote…. Here are the reasons: Too busy, conflicting schedule Not interested, felt vote would not make a difference Illness or disability (own or family’s) Did not [...]

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For procedures and advice on registering to vote, or registering others, and on absentee voting, click on this download: voter-reg-instr-for-05-18-10.pdf The download is designed to be printed and cut in half, either for registrants to refer to as the fill out the registration form, or for them to take with the form for later processing. [...]