Post by Logan on May 7, 2016 2:23:48 GMT -6
PERU – The Miami County voter registration clerk who told a crowd of people they likely wouldn’t be able to vote during Tuesday’s primary has resigned from his position.
Paul Wilson resigned Friday after telling people at the end of a line of around 130 residents lined up at the courthouse that they likely wouldn’t make it to vote before the polls closed at 6 p.m.
Wilson cited former state code, which required voters to be within a 50-foot chute of the polling place to be allowed to vote after 6 p.m.
That state code was amended last year to allow anyone in line by 6 p.m. to vote. Miami County Clerk Tawna Leffel-Sands said she and Wilson were unaware that the law had changed.
Read more: www.kokomotribune.com/news/miami-co-voter-clerk-resigns-over-primary-election-gaffe/article_5bb5457a-13c5-11e6-92b5-eb7d9dffcde6.html
Paul Wilson resigned Friday after telling people at the end of a line of around 130 residents lined up at the courthouse that they likely wouldn’t make it to vote before the polls closed at 6 p.m.
Wilson cited former state code, which required voters to be within a 50-foot chute of the polling place to be allowed to vote after 6 p.m.
That state code was amended last year to allow anyone in line by 6 p.m. to vote. Miami County Clerk Tawna Leffel-Sands said she and Wilson were unaware that the law had changed.
Read more: www.kokomotribune.com/news/miami-co-voter-clerk-resigns-over-primary-election-gaffe/article_5bb5457a-13c5-11e6-92b5-eb7d9dffcde6.html