Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAllegheny County election officials are gearing up for the May 19 primary, with final preparations well underway.David Voye, manager of the elections division, says more than 900,000 people are registered to vote in the county.”We have processed approximately 110,000 mail-in ballot applications. Of those, approximately 60,000 have been returned. We normally get back about 5,000 per day,” Voye said Tuesday.This midterm cycle includes several notable races, such as those for governor and lieutenant governor, all 17 U.S. representative seats, all 203 state representative seats and half of the state senator seats. Voye expects a larger voter turnout later in the year. “A lot of these primary races are uncontested, but you’ll see a big surge come November,” he said. As for poll workers, Voye noted that the county is a couple hundred short but plans to fill the gaps with staff members. For those planning to vote by mail, May 12 is the last day to apply.”Your application must be in our office. Whether you apply online at www.alleghenycounty.us or come into our office, it must be done by 5 o’clock today,” Voye said.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Allegheny County election officials are gearing up for the May 19 primary, with final preparations well underway.<\/p>\n
David Voye, manager of the elections division, says more than 900,000 people are registered to vote in the county.<\/p>\n
“We have processed approximately 110,000 mail-in ballot applications. Of those, approximately 60,000 have been returned. We normally get back about 5,000 per day,” Voye said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
This midterm cycle includes several notable races, such as those for governor and lieutenant governor, all 17 U.S. representative seats, all 203 state representative seats and half of the state senator seats. <\/p>\n
Voye expects a larger voter turnout later in the year. <\/p>\n
“A lot of these primary races are uncontested, but you’ll see a big surge come November,” he said. <\/p>\n
As for poll workers, Voye noted that the county is a couple hundred short but plans to fill the gaps with staff members. <\/p>\n
For those planning to vote by mail, May 12 is the last day to apply.<\/p>\n
“Your application must be in our office. Whether you apply online at www.alleghenycounty.us<\/a> or come into our office, it must be done by 5 o’clock today,” Voye said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEXT TUESDAY. BUT ACCORDING TO ELECTION OFFICIALS, IT ALL STEAMS AHEAD AND THEY\u2019RE READY FOR THE MAY PRIMARY…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[39725,894,84968,84965,4329,84966,4531,4706,4499,5715,19986,84969,2008,73,75,74,4284,84970,10088,84967,108],"class_list":["post-190692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2026-election","tag-allegheny-county","tag-allegheny-county-election-official","tag-david-voye","tag-day","tag-final-preparation","tag-governor","tag-half","tag-mail","tag-manager","tag-may-primary","tag-midterm-cycle","tag-office","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-primary","tag-several-notable-race","tag-staff-member","tag-state-representative-seat","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190692","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=190692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"WTAE](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769019068_844_wtae.png\")
<\/p>\n