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You'll be shocked, shocked, to learn that Philadelphia isn't the only place in battleground state of Pennsylvania where Republican officials sought to move polling places in heavily Democratic neighborhoods at the last minute -- a move that could cause some confused voters not to cast ballots on Nov. 2.
Campaign Extra! is reporting (some of this appeared in our story in this morning's Daily News) that officials in Scranton, PA's Lackawanna County last week successfully moved 21 polling places over both citizen and Democratic objections. The GOP had just grabbed a 2-1 majority on the county's board of commissioners.
Unlike Philly, there's no racial angle. But Democrats say that each one of the polling places are in districts that vote at least 60 percent Democratic. The Republican majority that approved the changes says the move is merely an attempt to deal with the Americans with Disabilities Act (a similar argument was made for many of the GOP's proposed switches in Philly).
But that doesn't seem to be a factor in some of them. One of the axed polling places was an easily accessible first-floor building, that happened to be owned by the Lackawanna Democratic chair. (Here's a local account of the move.)
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