Chester County Board of Elections certified the 2025 general election results in a tense meeting marked by expressions of frustration from upset attendees, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY.
The three-member board cast a 2 to 1 vote on Friday after offering additional apologies for third-party voters being excluded from poll books, an issue that remains under investigation.
The lengthy public comment portions of the meeting included repeated calls for resignation along with demands for criminal probes.
Commissioner Josh Maxwell, chair of the board, voted to certify the results after offering another apology for the poll book error.
“To all the independents in this county, the people who were disenfranchised, I am extraordinarily sorry,” he said. “Know that it is my commitment and this government’s commitment to earn your trust and to make it up to you.”
Commissioner Eric Roe, the board’s sole Republican member, was the only vote against certification of the results.
He noted his “confidence in the administration of the elections in Chester County is shaken.”
The investigation into the error that excluded about 70,000 third-party voters from the county’s poll books is being led by the West Chester-based law firm Fleck Eckert Klein McGarry.
Read more about election results and the continued efforts to investigate the error in WHYY.
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