READING, Pa. \u2014 Berks County voters who want to avoid the Election Day lines can now begin the voting process in person.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for people to come in and vote their mail-in ballot before Election Day,\u201d Berks County Commissioner Michael Rivera said. \u201cSo, you can come here to the office, to the services center, elections department, and fill out a mail-in ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Election workers process the application while the voter waits. The voter can then complete the paper ballot inside the office or take it home and return it later.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to help people to get out to vote before Election Day,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cYou have people that are working, that are traveling, or just don\u2019t want to go and wait in the lines on Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The service is available weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Election Services office on the first floor of the Berks County Services Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mail-in ballots are available starting today through October the 27th at 5 p.m.,\u201d Rivera said.<\/p>\n
The service is only available to voters who have not already applied for a mail-in or absentee ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2014 Berks County voters who want to avoid the Election Day lines can now begin the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10077,349,7722,5497,123781,70960,123780,539,736,128,130,129,69809],"class_list":["post-300418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-absentee-ballot","tag-berks-county","tag-early-voting","tag-election-day","tag-elections-department","tag-mail-in-ballot","tag-over-the-counter-voting","tag-pa","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-voter-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300418","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=300418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}