NEWSVoters reported being blocked from Pa. election site — and from obtaining absentee ballots — as early as 2016

by Jonathan Lai, Posted: 11 minutes ago

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Pennsylvania election officials say they first learned last week that their new security measures blocking foreign access to state election sites were preventing voters abroad from accessing their absentee ballots.

But voters living outside the country told the Inquirer and Daily News they had trouble much earlier.

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"Definitely I can tell you from my own experience, this happened in the May primary," said Portia Kamons, 56, who lived in Southwestern Pennsylvania before moving to the United Kingdom nearly three decades ago.

Kamons said she contacted the Pennsylvania Department of State and other officials to report the problem. When the state sent emails a few weeks ago directing voters to the same site — which remains blocked — Kamons said she was "hopping mad" that nothing had been done.

Other users also reported being blocked from seeing election results in January and March on the state site and prevented from opening the voter registration page in October 2016.

WASHINGTON – Democratic Sen. Chris Coons once dodged elephants in Mozambique with GOP Sen. Jeff Flake. He lunched with Ivanka Trump. And he helped pass legislation Wednesday by partnering with GOP Sen. Bob Corker and the ultra-conservative Rep. Ted Yoho, a member of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus.

That's why it’s no surprise to those who know Coons that he was in the middle of the Senate’s singular bipartisan moment during the spectacle that has been Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing.

Progressives want him to take a harder line with Republicans. But Coons' history of bipartisanship allowed him to strike an agreement with Flake on the Senate Judiciary Committee, leading to an FBI investigation of sexual misconduct complaints against Kavanaugh from high school and college. Coons got an investigation Democrats wanted; Flake got a weeklong limitation. Kavanaugh denies all allegations.

Coons was first elected in 2010 to fill the Senate seat Vice President Joe Biden held for 36 years. His state has long valued bipartisanship. Delaware politicians have a tradition of riding together in a parade and burying a hatchet in a box of sand after an election.

After his Sept. 28 compromise with Flake, he returned home to a standing ovation at a previously scheduled town hall meeting, and some criticism. A woman who identified herself as former U.S. attorney told him she didn’t believe an investigation could be done in one week.

“The alternative to having one week was no week,” he replied.

HE IS A SNAKE….

>>3344744 nope. Coons is tied to Biden. He took Bidens seat when Biden became VP. His job was to latch onto the weakest link. Flake. Coons is slick. He is a "diplomat". The soft talking persuader. I am DEanon. So this has been in the works.