Out of Philadelphia….BY THE AFTERNOON of Election Day 2012, it was clear something was wrong: Rumors were spreading that an alarming number of voters were being forced to cast provisional ballots because their names weren’t listed at their polling places.
Mayor Nutter got on the phone with City Commissioner Stephanie Singer, then the city’s top election official. How that conversation began depends on whom you believe, but there’s no dispute about how it ended: with loud voices and an unexpected click.
“When he started cursing at me, I hung up on him,” Singer said in a recent interview. “There’s a certain level of civility that’s possible. . . . He asked me to do something. I said, ‘No.’ Then he cursed at me.” More at Philadelphia Daily News.