{"id":204563,"date":"2026-05-28T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204563\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:51:10","slug":"primary-2026-5-day-period-to-review-berks-election-results-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204563\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 2026: 5-day period to review Berks election results to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berks County election officials have completed their tally of results from the primary.<\/p>\n<p>The latest count includes election night totals as well as votes from mailed, absentee and provisional ballots. Write-in votes are listed but will not be totaled until those candidates formally claim them.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 51,612 ballots were cast in the election: 35,168 in person, 16,297 by mail and 147 provisional.<\/p>\n<p>The results have been posted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkspa.gov\/departments\/election-services\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">countyofberks.com\/elections<\/a>, and a five-day period to inspect the results begins Friday.<\/p>\n<p>During the review period, candidates can challenge the results. That\u2019s also the window during which write-in candidates must file petitions to have variations of their names count toward their vote totals.<\/p>\n<p>The results remain unofficial until the election board certifies them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berks County election officials have completed their tally of results from the primary. The latest count includes election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,836,3612,182,883,139,28,50,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-204563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-election","tag-election-2026","tag-local-news","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","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\/204563","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=204563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}