{"id":192499,"date":"2026-05-14T18:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192499\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:22:41","slug":"erie-county-reports-on-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192499\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County reports on voter registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We\u2019re now less than a week away from Pennsylvania\u2019s 2026 primary election, with updated numbers from the Erie County Office of Elections and Voter Registration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After running a report, Erie County found that, since last year\u2019s primary, nearly 1,300 new voters have registered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-businesses-weigh-in-as-tariff-refunds-begin\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Erie businesses weigh in as tariff refunds begin;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Erie businesses weigh in as tariff refunds begin&quot;}\"> Erie businesses weigh in as tariff refunds begin <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of the voters currently registered, 467 voters switched to the Democratic Party and just over 400 voters switched to the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also, 350 voters switched their status to no affiliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With Pennsylvania having closed primaries, those with no party affiliation will be unable to vote on Tuesday, May 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re now less than a week away from Pennsylvania\u2019s 2026 primary election, with updated numbers from the Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,85664,138,137,85665,4815],"class_list":["post-192499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-county-office-of-elections","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-the-democratic-party","tag-voter-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192499","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=192499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}