{"id":234873,"date":"2026-07-03T17:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234873\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:59:10","slug":"northampton-county-approves-purchase-of-mail-in-ballot-equipment-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234873\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County approves purchase of mail-in ballot equipment | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa.- Northampton County is buying new equipment to help with the preparation of mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<p>County council approved the $157,241 purchase from the Texas-based Quadient, Inc., on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Any contract exceeding $100,000 requires council&#8217;s approval in Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p>The contract with Quadient includes several pieces of equipment as well as installation and training.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Northampton County Elections Registrar Chris Commini, the machine will help automate a process that typically requires a lot of manpower hours from volunteers ahead of elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Currently) we do all of our mail-in ballots internally, that includes labeling, stuffing the envelopes, the ballots, everything,&#8221; Commini told council on Thursday night. &#8220;What this machine is going to do, is allow us to label the inner return envelope label and address and post the outer envelope. It will also collate all of these envelopes together with the correct ballot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>21,438 mail-in ballots were returned for the most recent election in May, compared to\u00a025,150 ballots that were cast in person, Commini reported last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa.- Northampton County is buying new equipment to help with the preparation of mail-in ballots. County council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,434],"class_list":["post-234873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234873","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=234873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}