{"id":287015,"date":"2026-09-16T04:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T04:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:44:17","slug":"erie-county-considers-new-ballot-drop-box-technology-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287015\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Considers\u00a0New Ballot Drop\u00a0Box Technology | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Erie County Board of Elections is considering new technology for ballot drop-off.<\/p>\n<p>The Sentinel Smart Mail Ballot system is one option officials are looking at.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Chris Drexel says the technology could add another layer of security and potentially allow for more ballot drop-off locations.<\/p>\n<p>A local library is one location under consideration, with security cameras already in place.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment would cost more than 90-thousand dollars, plus installation costs at each location.<\/p>\n<p>Drexel says taxpayers would not cover the full cost.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to review other options and hear from Luzerne County, the only other Pennsylvania county currently using the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie County Board of Elections is considering new technology for ballot drop-off. The Sentinel Smart Mail Ballot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13134,1963,136,142,138,137,119480,8040,803,3860,119478,119479],"class_list":["post-287015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-ballot-drop-box","tag-board-of-elections","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-installation-costs","tag-library","tag-luzerne-county","tag-security","tag-sentinel-smart-mail-ballot","tag-voting-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287015","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=287015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}