Pennsylvania Man Charged In Threat To Shoot Poll Workers

GLEN LYON, PA - MAY 15: A "Polling Place" sign is placed outside the Glen Lyon Italian American Sporting Club polling station during the 2018 Pennsylvania Primary Election on May 15, 2018 in Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania.... GLEN LYON, PA - MAY 15: A "Polling Place" sign is placed outside the Glen Lyon Italian American Sporting Club polling station during the 2018 Pennsylvania Primary Election on May 15, 2018 in Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania. In the second major May primary day nationwide, four states go to the polls: Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images) MORE LESS

ATLANTA (AP) — A man is accused of threatening to shoot workers at a western Pennsylvania polling place after they told him he wasn’t registered to vote.

Forty-eight-year-old Christopher Thomas Queen of Claysville was charged Tuesday with terroristic threats and disorderly conduct.

Washington county assistant elections director Melanie Ostrander says Quinn came to the South Franklin Volunteer Fire Department in South Franklin Township at about 9 a.m. Tuesday. She says he became irate when he was told he wasn’t registered to vote.

Ostrander says the man allegedly “became upset, told the poll workers he was going to go get a gun and come back and shoot them.”

Court documents don’t list an attorney for Queen and a phone number listed in his name rang unanswered before disconnecting Tuesday.

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  1. You know i didn’t actually read the CNN link ‘what to do if you’re turned away at the polls’ but i wonder if this option was in there. ‘Merica

  2. Avatar for schmed schmed says:

    Something about Trump’s mention of “2nd Amendment people” seems to be ringing a bell. Hmmm.

  3. This story is not complete without a picture of Christopher Thomas Queen after he was arrested…

  4. I was expecting to see a photo of Trump. After all, we know he can murder somebody on 5th Ave. with impunity, as well as voting poll workers.

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