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Amish voters turn out in unprecedented numbersand could tip election-winning swing state Pennsylvania for Trump [Video]

DONALD Trump could secure victory in a crucial swing state thanks to Amish voters who have turned out in “unprecedented numbers”.

Despite their well-known aversion to voting, the often overlooked group in Pennsylvania are understood to have decided to head to the polls in their masses.

Members of the Amish community, Samuel Stoltzfus and his wife Lillian Stoltzfus, vote at a polling center in New Holland, PennsylvaniaCredit: AP
An Amish horse and buggy makes its way toward a polling location in Intercourse, PennsylvaniaCredit: AFP
Members of the Amish community, Lillian Stoltzfus and her husband Samuel Stoltzfus, walk out of a polling center after voting in New HollandCredit: AP

Almost 100,000 Amish people live in the state and are famed for their dismissal of the government in favor of religion.

But their support of Trump was ignited over the treatment of local dairy farmer Amos Miller.

State officials raided his farm in January for selling unpasteurized milk.

Miller was banned from selling …

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