A Philadelphia suburb’s novel solution for getting the vote out – a voting van
by Sam Levine in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania from US news | The Guardian on (#6RQ4Q)
Van makes voting accessible in Montgomery county, where officials reject at least 1,000 mail-in votes each election
Maxine Endy had been on the phone with her neighbors in her towering apartment complex in King of Prussia, a Philadelphia suburb, trying to get them to vote. Several people told Endy, an octogenarian (don't put my age in the newspaper") they weren't sure how to get a ballot. Many of them weren't sure where to go to the polls.
Another woman in the complex had even seen a confused neighbor go to the lobby of her building and ask a receptionist for a mail-in ballot.
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