BERKS COUNTY, Pa. – There are some unique places you can go and cast your ballot in Berks County.<\/p>\n
“They came in,” said John Masano. “We said ‘hey, come on down here’, and here we are.”<\/p>\n
What do I have to do to get you behind the wheel of this brand new voting booth?<\/p>\n
“We maintain the look and feel of the dealerships, but back here you can see the truck shop, used vehicles, inspection,” Masano said.<\/p>\n
It’s a unique polling location this year at Tom Masano Auto Park on East Wyomissing Boulevard in Reading. When Berks County election officials said they needed a spot, Masano came along for the ride.<\/p>\n
“We’re very big in the community. We’re a part of Reading. We grew up here,” Masano said. “We used to vote on Kenhorst Boulevard.”<\/p>\n
The former Baldwin Hardware building now features a cars and art gallery, an area highlighting sustainable agriculture and automotive facilities.<\/p>\n
Election officials say finding a polling place is a challenge.<\/p>\n
“Finding polling locations is actually one of the hardest jobs we have. The location has to agree to be a polling place for starters. A lot of places don’t want to commit to the full day, so they need to be ADA accessible,” said Anne Norton with Berks County Election Services.<\/p>\n
Be it a traditional polling location or not, election night is in full swing in Berks.<\/p>\n
“We ended up at a car dealership. We have one at a funeral home as well,” she said. “Wherever it works is where we like to go.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. – There are some unique places you can go and cast your ballot in Berks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16535,349,16533,6698,16534,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-24988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-ann-norton","9":"tag-berks-county","10":"tag-berks-county-election-services","11":"tag-car-dealership","12":"tag-john-masano","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-reading","15":"tag-reading-city","16":"tag-reading-city-headlines","17":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24988","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=24988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}