Conservative commentator Wendy Bell falsely claimed Monday that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration seeks to “silence voters” by ordering others potentially exposed to the coronavirus to remain in the house on Election Day.
In a Facebook post he liked and shared thousands of times, Bell claimed that the State Department of Health sent a letter to thousands of voters informing them that they “must remain quarantined and vote on the user on Election Day. “If they obey the order, they threaten to be arrested. “
The message goes on: “Do you think Wolf’s address seeks to silence the electorate, hours before the top election in American history?”
In a follow-up post that also generated thousands of actions and likes, Bell said Secretary of State for Health, dr. Rachel Levine, “is going to be at QuaRANTIN’s electorate in Pennsylvania on Election Day. It’s BIG !!!” And on a Facebook screen on Monday, he called it an “amazing and shocking bounce. “
Since many voters president Donald Trump has told pollsters that they prefer to vote for the user on Election Day, rather than voting by mail, what Democrats are doing in a much larger number than Republicans in Pennsylvania, Bell’s involvement is that Democrats run Pennsylvania The government seeks to prevent Trump’s electorate from going to the polls.
The reality: no one should deprive a voter who has been exposed to coronavirus.
“The story that on social media is absolutely false,” Levine said at a news convention on Monday.
A message was sent to Bell for comment.
It is true that Pennsylvania sends a popular letter to others who have been known as “close contact” of a user who has tested positive for coronavirus. The letter instructs the potentially exposed user to quarantine him for 14 days and states that Health The Secretary has the strength to seek a court order and ask law enforcement to comply.
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But the letter says nothing about Election Day, and a spokeswoman for the fitness branch, April Hutcheson, said Monday that the branch had never filed a lawsuit against a Pennsylvania resident for not turning 40.
The branch needs others to comply with quarantine regulations to prevent the spread of the virus, Hutcheson said, but “we can’t force or tell Americans they can’t vote in person. “
In addition, Pennsylvania has a solution for the electorate that intended to vote for the user on Election Day, but can no longer do so due to an unforeseen illness or other unforeseen emergency.
This is called emergency postal voting. A voter who is ingested due to positive viral control or is going to be quarantined due to possible exposure may request such an emergency ballot.
State law even requires a sheriff’s deputy or other county official to hand over voting cloths in certain circumstances.
“All Pennsylvania residents registered to vote will have the opportunity to do so,” Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said Monday in a written statement.