{"id":181814,"date":"2026-05-02T02:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181814\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:05:17","slug":"pennsylvania-readies-for-may-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181814\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania readies for May primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fri, May 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania readies for May primary<\/p>\n

MERCER, Pa.<\/a> (WKBN) \u2013 Pennsylvania\u2019s Primary Election Day is coming up. You have until Monday to register to vote.<\/p>\n

If you want to request a mail-in or absentee ballot, you can do that until May 12. Mercer County Election Director Thad Hall said voters should do some research before they head to the polls.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing for people to keep in mind for this primary is the ballots do not have a lot of competition. For instance, there\u2019s no competition on either the Democrat and Republican side for governor, and so people should research the races that are on the ballot. You can find your ballot on our website, mercercountypa.gov,\u201d Hall said. <\/p>\n

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day, May 19.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WKBN.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, May 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM UTC Pennsylvania readies for May primary MERCER, Pa. (WKBN) \u2013 Pennsylvania\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10077,5497,28,30,29,81179],"class_list":["post-181814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-absentee-ballot","tag-election-day","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-thad-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181814","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=181814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}