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karen go bye bye (soon and finally)

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Embrace new opportunities? Personal growth? Continuing developing as a leader? As an individual?

Forgedddaboutit, Karen.

“The decision to leave is mine, and I thank the Commissioners for working with me on an appropriate timetable.”

Girl, come on now, really?? And yes, I get that no one can talk about something like that, but essentially isn’t everybody wondering why this took so long to come to this resolution?

“Before my departure, I will be assisting with one more election to ensure a smooth transition.”

Yeah sorry not sorry but smooth is definitely not the word I would use to describe your tenure….

“I leave knowing we have all done our best, but for me, it is time to move on.”

Ahhh the we word. Please, by all means, don’t let the door hit you in the posterior. But please define done your best? Again, how many people as in what was the body count as in who worked in voter services and left under your tenure? Was that a good thing? How about those poll books for the November 2025 election? Was that something to be proud of? Or the most recent things with the letter from “Chester” or the whole name reversal mailing?

You end your twisted love letter to a skeletal department by using the “team” word? Oh honey, I could go on…but I won’t since it seems that “team” has taken enough for you haven’t they?

I’m going go back to hoping that the next person who has your job actually responds to the residents of this county when they contact them. I’m going to hope that the person who next has your job gets over their own ego and pettiness when dealing with candidates and doing witch hunts over signs, ok? Or is it not OK in your book for anyone who lives in this county to have such thoughts?

At the end of the day, Karen Barsoum never apologized to the residents of Chester county for what she put us through on Election Day 2025. And mistakes can indeed happen but it is all about how you own your mistakes and she never owned a thing. So never ever even issuing a basic apology? That still speaks volumes.

oops she did it again!

oops she did it again!

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Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. Just when you think there’s no more Barsouming to be had, here she comes again! She is the Britney Spears of county government! Oops she did it again!

https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2026/02/06/chester-county-mail-ballot-application-error-reverse-first-last-names/

Mail ballot application error adds to Chester County’s woes

The county sent out thousands of forms that reversed voters’ first and last names.

By Carter Walker | February 6, 2026, 4:12pm EST

A Pennsylvania county election office that was already facing criticism for a 2025 election snafu and an alleged hostile work environment is dealing with another error. 

Roughly 145,000 mail ballot applications sent out in Chester County this week for the 2026 elections were printed with the first and last names of voters reversed…..Chester County’s election director, Karen Barsoum, confirmed ….Barsoum declined to say which employee or division of the office performed the check.

She said the accuracy check was more focused on confirming that the proper information, such as voter ID number or address, was connected to the right voter rather than whether the names were in the correct order. 

Mmmkay Karen and once again we hear crickets versus a simple apology or truly owning yet another screw-up.

Effective leadership starts at the top and she’s not a leader is she? She’s not a good manager is she?

Read the full article, there is no paywall.

#FIREKARENBARSOUM

Prior Barsouming includes:

https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2026/02/05/chester-county-pollbook-problem-2025-election-board-meeting-karen-barsoum/

https://vista.today/2024/08/karen-barsoum-leadership-chester-county/

https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2025/11/12/chester-county-pollbook-provisional-ballot-problem-2025-election/

Chester County poll book error was caused by ‘simple human error,’ investigation finds

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/chester-county-election-office-burnout-20251216.html

Chester County pledges to ‘make it right’ as it navigates fallout from poll book error
karen barsoum needs to go: chester county has made independents invisible on election day.
love note from “chester” (and fire karen barsoum)
hey karen barsoum, where is my husband’s provisional ballot?
it’s not conclave, it’s voter services so what gives chester county commissioners? where’s the truth and accountability?
where’s karen barsoum, chester county?
serenading….chester county voter services!
where’s the literal karen of chesco voter services?
who is a conspiracy theorist now with chester county voters services?
the big voter services investigation is out, so what will change? odds are, not much in my opinion.

hey karen barsoum, where is my husband’s provisional ballot?

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So guess what? My husband‘s provisional ballot is one of the ones that apparently does not count.

I have covered up the number of his ballot for privacy sake for the screenshot above, but I can tell you I am still checking it and his vote is nowhere to be found.

NOWHERE. It’s like it didn’t exist, like he didn’t exist as an Independent on Election Day. It is like they ate his provisional ballot.

Am I surprised? Nope.

Of course, you also can’t get anybody on the phone in voter services let alone the esteemed director who has been invisible since the election day debacle. If it’s not a fluffy, self-aggrandizing media interview, she’s invisible and to date, unapologetic so whom is she in the process of blaming?

So this is kind of why litigation is being filed, isn’t it?

Here’s the link to the county’s bogus press release:

https://www.chesco.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1685

I personally don’t have faith in voter services at this point. And Karen Barsoum the department head and she needs to go.

She can’t hide behind the county commissioner she hides behind, which is Josh Maxwell. I think he’s trying to be kind and be fair because that’s totally the way he is, but Barsoum is doing Josh Maxwell a great disservice. IMHO she is damaging his political credibility.

I do not blame Josh Maxwell for this, but I so do blame Karen Barsoum.

#firekarenbarsoum

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serenading….chester county voter services!

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Please let Barry Dee at All Politics Are Local which version is your favorite!

Karen Barsoum you’re famous!

where’s karen barsoum, chester county?

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Well, it’s no secret that election day was a total study in incompetence, gross incompetence, on the part of the Chester County Director of Voter Services Karen Barsoum. I am starting this post reminding the knee jerk reaction chorus in the rear of the attention span auditorium that I am not an election conspiracy theorist. I am not a voting conspiracy theorist I am not saying there was malicious intent, what I am saying is there was gross incompetence.

karen barsoum needs to go: chester county has made independents invisible on election day.

I am really, quite honestly tired of the people defending this woman. She’s been here long enough and worked in another voter services department in Berks County prior to this that she should not have screwed things up this election or the spring primary where she actually left an entire row office race off of the ballot.

This is something procedurally that it remains the same. There’s one procedure in the spring, there’s another procedure in the fall. Epic fail, pure and simple.

I have mentioned before the crazy amount of turnover in that office. That’s because people don’t want work with her, in my opinion. People need jobs, so if they aren’t taking jobs in that department or constantly leaving, there’s a reason.

Basically, we have heard from everyone, except Karen Barsoum. Her socials are suddenly quite quiet and seem scrubbed as well.

She should’ve been front and center at the county commissioners meeting yesterday, even if just to make a brief statement and leave the room. Everyone has been apologizing for this situation except her. And to be honest given how much she loves the sound bite going back to Berks County, I find that odd.

Obviously to stand up and own is not as fun as being on 60 Minutes or quoted in USA Today or whatever, but you have to have a accountability for the good and the bad and she doesn’t ever seem to have accountability and it’s time for her to be accountable. Then it’s time for her to go.

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/11/chester-county-pennsylvania-pollbook-error-provisional-ballots-elections/

She needs to show her face to apologize to all of us residents in Chester County, and then she should go.

#firekarenbarsoum

From Barsoum’s time in Berks County
From her socials when she was crowing about being on 60 minutes



Snippet from Info Wars