The news organization found that dozens of Republican mail ballots for the May 17 primary were being diverted to a P.O. Box registered to the Republican Registration Coalition. The committee’s chairman ... said he’d helped the voters fill out their ballot applications, inserting his P.O. box on the form where voters would typically write their home addresses.
Though [he] maintained he was doing this as a “service to the voters” and intended to hand deliver the ballots once they arrived, many of the affected voters said they did not remember applying to vote by mail and had no idea why their ballots were going to [him] instead of directly to them.
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Philadelphia’s fellow GOP ward leaders voted Saturday to oust [the staffer] from his position as the leader of South Philadelphia’s 39th Ward, calling the situation troubling at a time when Republican lawmakers and candidates have attacked mail voting and falsely characterized it as rife with abuse by their Democrat rivals.
