Several witnesses said Fusaro was being aggressive with election staff over a shortage of paper for ballots.
Fusaro, an appointed member of the county election board,denies she used the racial slur.
She told county attorneys that she was extremely kind to the two women.
Former President Donald Trump speaks on Oct. 22, 2024, in Greensboro, North Carolina.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Like Fusaro, six of the seven Republicans on the council areelection deniers.
Fusaro did not respond to a request for comment, nor did county attorneys.
Fusaro twicerefusedto certify the results of the 2022 election, questioning whether it had been free and fair.
She is not an anomaly.
At least 23 of these officials are county election board members.
The remaining 10 sit on county councils or commissions, which have some authority over election matters.
Many of the officials frequently post election misinformation on social media.
she belted in place of the iconic Oi!
See him ride out of the White House, fighting Pelosi, Fusaro sang.
like send me names, phone, emails if interested in standing up for our USA.
So where do we go from here?
I remember how you and your Democratic Party stole the election from my President Trump.
I see dead people.
What are the dead people doing?
Theyre voting by mail.
Last November, election board members in Lancaster County initially refused to certify results over issues with mail-in ballots.
Eventually, a federal judge ruled that some of the ballots must be counted and the board certified results.
Theoretically, this would force counties to certify results under court order.
Schmidt said at the gathering that he would take counties that refuse to certify results to court forthwith.
Others have allowed ballot-curing.
The county has since unanimously approved a rule that requires voters to be notified of problems with their ballots.
(In June 2022 Sherman wrote an op-ed for a local newspaper titled Eliminate unsecured voting drop boxes.)
We know when the ballot was mailed to you, literally.
We know when it was returned to us.
The Republican National Committee sued Schmidt in an attempt to prohibit voters from curing their mail-in ballots.
TheRNCis now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on the matter.
The counting and adjudication of mail-in ballots not to mention certification of results carries great importance in Luzerne County.
A former Democratic stronghold, Luzerne has been trending Republican since Trump won there in 2016.
In recent years, Luzerne has undergone a drastic rightward shift.
After years of Democratic control, the county council now counts eight Republicans and just four Democrats.
County council meetings have been inundated with speakers railing against ballot drop boxes and espousing election conspiracies.
