The county began installation Monday without a court hearing over the line of authority.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Luzerne County began installing ballot drop boxes Monday after weeks of controversy.
Workers bolted one to the ground at the Penn Place Building in Wilkes-Barre, in view of a surveillance camera and county sheriff’s deputies manning a metal detector station.
Officials said another will go up at the Broad Street Business Exchange in Hazleton. They were awaiting permission from two locations — Misericordia University in Dallas and Wright Manor in Mountain Top — to set up the remaining two.
This all follows legal wrangling between the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the county manager, Romilda Crocamo, who initially denied their deployment by citing security and financial concerns. The county Board of Elections and Registration last voted in February to approve the drop boxes. The board will take another vote Wednesday.
Crocamo reversed course Fridayafter the state attorney general …