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#JaVotes2016: Brown Burke's presence angers JLP supporters

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Jamaica Labour Party supporters at the Mountain View Primary School in the St Andrew Eastern constituency, are this morning expressing displeasure at the presence of PNP Vice President Angela Brown Burke.

The supporters, who gathered outside the Mountain View Primary School after voting, became boisterous and blocked the entrance to the polling station denying Brown Burke entry.

Brown Burke was surrounded by a group of police officers as she sought to explain her presence at the polling station.

"What she a do inna the constituency, this is not her constituency, she need to leave," one supporter shouted.

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