READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Board of Elections honored county resident Mary Kozak for being inducted in the Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
County Commissioner Michael S. Rivera explained the Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame is for people who have voted consecutively at every November election for the past 50 years.<\/p>\n
The commissioners presented Kozak with a certificate from Gov. Josh Shapiro and Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt.<\/p>\n
Kozak told the board that in addition to the November elections, she also voted in every primary election and in a special election during the 50-years.<\/p>\n
In other business, the board approved the ballot drop box schedule for absentee and mail-in ballots for the May 19 primary election.<\/p>\n
The ballot drop boxes will once again be located in the Berks County Services Center, Reading, the South Campus, Mohnton, and in the Reading Regional Airport.<\/p>\n
The drop boxes will be available from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. beginning Monday, May 4 through Friday. May 8, and then again from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. from Monday, May 11 until Friday, May 15.<\/p>\n
For the three days leading up to the primary, the boxes will be available on: Saturday, May 16, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., Sunday, May 17 from 12 noon until 4 p.m., Monday, May 18 from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m., and on Election Day, May 19, from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
The board also approved the $200 compensation for county employees who work in various roles on Election Day.<\/p>\n
Employees also receive their regular pay, and the third shift workers receive May 20 off from work, with the permission of their supervisors.<\/p>\n
County Commissioner Christian Y. Leinbach said he does not believe the $200 pay is enough for the poll workers, who often work very long shifts.<\/p>\n
Leinbach said that pay is set by the Pennsylvania Legislature.<\/p>\n
All three commissioners have often called for sweeping election reforms from the state, and that would include the ability of counties to set their own pay rate for poll workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Board of Elections honored county resident Mary Kozak for being inducted in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1930,30813,10073,56167,10200,4158,902,744,4163,33,56168,10193,55866,4160,28,30,29,24423,4162,386,50,4161,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-118389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-accountability","9":"tag-al-schmidt","10":"tag-berks-county-board-of-elections","11":"tag-berks-county-services-center","12":"tag-christian-y-leinbach","13":"tag-democracy","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-government","16":"tag-group-decision-making","17":"tag-josh-shapiro","18":"tag-mary-kozak","19":"tag-michael-s-rivera","20":"tag-organized-events","21":"tag-parliamentary-procedure","22":"tag-pennsylvania","23":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","24":"tag-pennsylvania-news","25":"tag-pennsylvania-voter-hall-of-fame","26":"tag-political-corruption","27":"tag-political-events","28":"tag-politics","29":"tag-psephology","30":"tag-voting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}