Fayette Searchlight

The Fayette County Election Board, led by Fayette County Commissioners Dave Lohr, Vincent A. Vicites, and Angela M. Zimmerlink, has an election board meeting set for today to consider a polling location change in Menallen Township.

Absent from the public notice of the meeting and from the agenda, is any consideration by the board of an official complaint filed on September 10.

In the board's first meeting since this writer filed an official complaint with the Fayette County Election Bureau/Board on Monday, September 10, 2018, the board has chosen to ignore the official complaint and to subvert election law, rather than to carry out its mandatory duty under law to investigate the complaint.

Under 25 P.S. § 2642(i), the law is unequivocal:  

25 P.S. § 2642:The county boards of elections, within their respective counties, shall exercise, in the manner provided by this act, all powers granted to them by this act, and shall perform all the duties imposed upon them by this act, which shall include the following:

(i) To investigate election frauds, irregularities and violations of this act, and to report all suspicious circumstances to the district attorney.