{"id":22771,"date":"2025-11-02T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22771\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:52:09","slug":"more-than-37000-votes-cast-during-early-voting-in-erie-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22771\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 37,000 votes cast during early voting in Erie Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election officials in Erie County say more than 37,000 voters cast their ballot during early voting this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Erie County Board of Elections, 4,753 ballots were cast on the ninth and final day of early voting<\/p>\n<p>Officials say 8,222 ballots were cast by voters registered in the city of Buffalo, which does have a <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2025\/10\/22\/three-candidates-head-to-head-for-buffalo-mayor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mayoral race<\/a> on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Running in that race is Democrat Sean Ryan, Republican James Gardner, and independent candidate Michael Gainer.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first open mayoral election in the city in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 4.\u00a0Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Election officials in Erie County say more than 37,000 voters cast their ballot during early voting this year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8255,1611,8257,136,138,137,139,50,1592],"class_list":["post-22771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-buffalo","tag-decision-2025","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771","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=22771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}