{"id":192264,"date":"2026-05-14T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192264\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:50:26","slug":"northampton-county-seeking-six-poll-workers-for-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192264\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County seeking six poll workers for primary election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northampton County is looking for six registered voters to serve as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/04\/24\/want-to-help-on-election-day-heres-how-to-become-a-poll-worker-in-lehigh-or-northampton-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poll workers<\/a> for Tuesday\u2019s primary election.<\/p>\n<p>The county said it is searching for workers after recent cancelations. Poll workers would be placed in areas such as Bethlehem, Northampton, Mount Bethel and Easton.<\/p>\n<p>Poll workers manage the check-in process and would be responsible for closing out the polling place at the end of the night. Anyone interested would need to take a mandatory training scheduled for Saturday. They will be compensated for the training and service, according to a county news release, which states workers earn between $175 and $200 on Election Day, depending on the assignment and training.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested can fill out the Pennsylvania Department of State\u2019s poll worker interest form online here, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/services\/vote\/apply-to-become-an-election-poll-worker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.pa.gov\/services\/vote\/apply-to-become-an-election-poll-worker<\/a>. Anyone looking for additional information can contact the county elections division at elections@norcopa.gov or 610-829-6260.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/04\/24\/want-to-help-on-election-day-heres-how-to-become-a-poll-worker-in-lehigh-or-northampton-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Want to help on Election Day? Here\u2019s how to become a poll worker in Lehigh or Northampton County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northampton County is looking for six registered voters to serve as poll workers for Tuesday\u2019s primary election. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,836,182,139,434,28,50,432],"class_list":["post-192264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-election","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192264","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=192264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}