{"id":196582,"date":"2026-05-19T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196582\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:29:30","slug":"berks-primary-election-vote-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196582\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks primary election vote 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the 2026 primary election opened at 7 a.m. today.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Eagle reporters will be posting from Berks County polling places throughout the day. The polls close at 8 p.m., but anyone in line at that time will be given the opportunity to vote.<\/p>\n<p>On the ballot are party nominations for governor, lieutenant governor, representative in Congress, half of all state Senate seats, all seats in the state House and the state committee.<\/p>\n<p>Each voter is assigned to a specific polling place. Voters unsure of where to go can look up their polling place by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkspa.gov\/departments\/election-services\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">county election services website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voters can check out the sample ballot for their voting precinct by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkspa.gov\/departments\/election-services\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">county election services website<\/a> or by checking out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/04\/23\/berks-county-primary-election-2026-guide-how-to-vote-where-to-go-who-the-candidates-are\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">candidate guide<\/a> the Reading Eagle compiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voting for the 2026 primary election opened at 7 a.m. today. Reading Eagle reporters will be posting from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-196582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196582","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=196582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}