{"id":198301,"date":"2026-05-20T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198301\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:42:07","slug":"pa-election-2026-montco-townships-approve-ballot-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198301\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Election 2026: Montco townships approve ballot questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What questions do you have about the 2026 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Voters approved charter updates in Horsham Township and an open space tax increase in Lower Salford Township <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/election-2026-pennsylvania-primary-winners-losers-recap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the polls Tuesday<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/vote\/elections\/types-of-elections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed primaries<\/a>, but registered voters of any political affiliation were able to weigh in on<a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/pennsylvania-election-2026-horsham-lower-salford-ballot-questions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the ballot questions in the two Montgomery County municipalities<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>In Horsham Township, a ballot question proposing a series of updates to the township charter was approved with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1452489583586691&amp;set=a.225991996236462\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 60% of the vote<\/a>. The charter hadn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/horshamnow.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/25\/gender-neutral-language-term-limits-among-proposed-horsham-township-charter-changes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">undergone a comprehensive overhaul since 1975<\/a>, and township officials said many of the changes<a href=\"https:\/\/horshamnow.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/25\/gender-neutral-language-term-limits-among-proposed-horsham-township-charter-changes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> were \u201chousekeeping\u201d<\/a> to make the charter consistent with state law.\n  <\/p>\n<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/corporate-underwriting\/\" title=\"WHYY thanks our sponsors \u2014 become a WHYY sponsor\" class=\"ad-caption\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHYY thanks our sponsors \u2014 become a WHYY sponsor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other amendments call for using gender-neutral language and banning council members from serving for more than two consecutive terms.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What questions do you have about the 2026 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[86835,25694,200,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-198301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-ballot-questions","tag-elections-2026","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198301","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=198301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}