WAKE FOREST, N.C. (WTVD) -- A former state legislator and Wake County commissioner was cited and charged after being accused of pushing an election worker at a Wake Forest early voting site Friday morning.
According to our newsgathering partners at the News & Observer, Gary Pendleton, 73, was working as an official Republican poll observer at the early polling location on East Holding Avenue at the time.
[Ads /]
Pendleton is a former Wake County commissioner and served in the North Carolina General Assembly from 2015 to 2017.
A representative for the Wake County Sheriff's Office said Pendleton was cited and charged with misdemeanor assault and trespassing. He also cannot enter the Wake Forest polling location again.
[Ads /]
Pendleton told the N&O that he pushed the worker "back a little bit," because of concerns about COVID-19.