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Pennsylvania man charged with threatening to shoot poll workers

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Pennsylvania man threatens to ‘shoot up’ polling station
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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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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