The change in venue for voters to cast their ballots in Chestnuthill Township made some voters angry enough to want to just skip the primary election all together.

Skipping it is what concerned Deborah Modica, who was running for a seat at the supervisors’ table in Chestnuthill Township.

Modica said she saw one woman so upset after going from one location to another that she didn’t even want to get out of her car. Her husband had to coax her out. She finally did go in the building and vote.

“They almost didn’t vote, they were so aggravated,” Modica said.

The aggravation was caused because the location of two voting precincts changed. Modica explained that precinct 1 used to be on the first floor of the West End Fire Company and precinct 4 was on the second floor. Now precinct 1 was moved to the Effort United Methodist Church on Merwinsburg Road, and precinct 4 was moved to the Chestnuthill Township Park Building on Route 715.

Modica said a postcard was mailed to the voters affected by the move, but many didn’t seem to get the message. She thinks there should have been two rounds of postcards and fliers posted.

“How many votes were lost today,” Modica wondered.

She thinks some people just got mad and went home.

Teresa Daly, the president of the West End Democratic Association in Brodheadsville, said she saw aggravated people, too. Daly had a table at precinct 3 at the Chestnuthill Township Municipal Building and talked to people looking for precinct 4, which was just next door down a wide, grassy path. It runs from the municipal building to the park. Daly said people walked back and forth across that path all day.