Posted at We are Central PA by way of Bob Barr Blog
BELLEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY – Last month a Pennsylvania judge denied a request by the Cumberland County Republican Chairman to remove Libertarian Presidential Candidate Bob Barr’s name from the ballot.
That chairman is taking an appeal to a higher court in this state, and in doing he is making Pennsylvania counties wait before certifying their November ballot.
Centre County Elections Director Joyce McKinley said she will not print the more than 100,000 ballots the county will use until the Barr situation is figured out.
In addition, this is the first election Centre County will be using paper ballots after a switch earlier this year from a touch screen system.
She worries that time is running out, and this is one more hurdle for her busy election’s office.
Already they have processed more than 3,000 new voters since the April primary, with several thousand more applications waiting to be processed.
“We’re really coming into the crunch time, so when we have the official certification and notify the company ES&S, they are doing the ballots for us this time, their turn around is 5 to 7 days,” McKinley said.