Chester County Democratic Committee

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 [...]

excerpt from “A political gambit that hopefully will never be imitated” = Daily Local News editorial, 8/12/10: …We think the election board should be condemned for discriminating against all voters. Chester County does not usually try that kind of thing. It is unseemly and uncalled for. The majority Republican Party in Chester County cared little [...]

[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 [...]

Congratulations to all Democratic winning candidates, and to all others who ran, thus contributing to the progress and experience of the ChesCo Dem party! Here for contested races are the ChesCo and state or district results: PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 226). . . . . 226 100.00% REGISTERED VOTERS – TOTAL . . . . . [...]

By Mark Bowden Inquirer Currents Columnist Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/21/10 My corner of Chester County doesn’t make national news too often, but it did on Election Day 2008. Voters trying to cast ballots in Lower Oxford Township East stood in lines for so long that TV crews showed up to capture the scene. Some of those [...]

letter in Daily Local News, 1/22/10 The Republican machine in Chester County is quick to take credit for the county’s stellar credit rating as described by Michael Rellahan in his Dec. 2 article, “Top-notch bond rating …” which was followed by the Republican chairman’s letter crediting Carol Aichele and Terence Farrell on Dec. 26 and [...]