A number of ballots would not scan during an election this week in a southwestern Pennsylvania county, triggering fresh concerns about election integrity. The ballots, mostly from Republican voters, were missing bar codes that typically help facilitate the scanning. “What we know at this point in time is that a bar code that’s required to allow the paper ballots to be scanned at the polling places was missing,” state Rep. Matthew Dowling, a Republican, told The Epoch Times. George Rattay, the chairman of the Fayette County Democratic Party, was present when the issues started around 7 p.m. on Tuesday night. He recalled that nobody initially knew what the problem was. He and others went to the county Bureau of Elections and found out it was a bar code issue. “There was some Democrats but the majority of them were Republican ballots,” he told The Epoch Times. A bureau spokeswoman declined …
Mostly Republican Ballots Fail to Scan in Pennsylvania County Election, Stoking Concerns
May 20, 2021
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