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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!

This is right off the social media of certain Democrat state representatives. I didn’t imagine this out of thin air.

I’m glad they see things the way average people do because I had some toadstool from Easttown or close to that vicinity basically accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist today over this whole debacle with voter services.

I’m not. I never have been.

This is a simple case of incompetency at the top of that department. The director is Karen Barsoum. This is on her.

And then there was the woman who said the only one I was impressing with my independent status was myself, and I should just shut up. Oh yeah, for real see below screenshot :

Now let’s review: I’m pretty sure if I remember what people told me in the past once they are ready to get the “books” printed for the election they have to check over everything and I’m sure there are all sorts of things that they have to check in some kind of a computer program, right?

At that point, they first have to generate the books in-house and then they go to an outside printer, correct?

Unless they changed it it’s not a magical overnight process is it it’s a process that would occur probably the week before the election last week right?

So who checked the work before it went to the printer? I mean with a problem this big if they even sampled random “books“ from around the county wouldn’t they have found this mistake? One of my sources told me they did not reprint the spring books so this is just a colossal screwup, isn’t it?

So working on the theory that the books would have been sent to be printed last week and delivered last week why didn’t anybody check them when they first came back in final printed for him to make sure they were correct?

Now I get that this department is now short staffed but wouldn’t a reasonable procedure be to check a sampling of the books to make sure they were correct?

So they’re going to be a lot of questions that need to be answered in the days ahead, but if the PA Attorney General gets involved, remember he’s having months long issues with some database, isn’t he?

My new hashtag is #firekarenbarsoum

I also have to ask is Chester County going to be able to certify these elections?

This is a huge debacle.

And it’s Karen Barsoum‘s fault this is her department. She’s made a big deal how she’s such a leader. A leader and competent manager would have checked her department’s work.

Judge Rovito has extended voting until 10 PM. The only issue I have with that is the Democrats and Republicans as far as registered voters weren’t disenfranchised today. It was those who are Independent or unaffiliated. So really why should Republican and Democrat registered voters get extra time to vote when it was in Independents and other unaffiliated who were in effect disenfranchised?