READING, Pa. – We’re just under two weeks away from the Pennsylvania Primary Election, and elections workers in Berks County are busy preparing.<\/p>\n
The ballot drop boxes are open this week and next, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Following that there will be extra hours every day through Election Day.<\/p>\n
There are three boxes in Berks: one at the Services Center in Reading, one at the South Campus in Mohnton, and one at Reading Regional Airport in Bern Township.<\/p>\n
Over-the-counter voting is offered at the Services Center though next Tuesday, May 12th. That’s also the deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot.<\/p>\n
It’s a busy time for election officials.<\/p>\n
“We’re preparing all of the supplies and different documents to go out to our 202 polling locations. We’re doing that testing we talked about, of the scanners and poll books, we’re preparing the poll books with all the data of all the updated voter records and making sure we have poll workers in place to work at the polls. So it’s a lot of activity in our office these next 2 weeks,” said Stephanie Nojiri, assistant director of the Berks County Office of Election Services.<\/p>\n
Election Day in Pennsylvania is Tuesday, May 19th.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania has closed primaries, so only voters registered with a specific political party can vote for candidates seeking that party’s nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – We’re just under two weeks away from the Pennsylvania Primary Election, and elections workers in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,82935,28,5638,736,128,130,129,82934],"class_list":["post-185755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-berks-county-office-of-election-services","tag-pennsylvania","tag-primary-election","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-stephanie-nojiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185755","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=185755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}