{"id":307326,"date":"2026-10-15T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307326\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:58:08","slug":"berks-election-officials-approve-emergency-polling-location-change-in-readinge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307326\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks election officials approve emergency polling location change in Readinge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berks County election officials voted Thursday to approve an emergency polling place change in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>The election board approved the temporary polling location change for voters in Reading\u2019s 12th Ward, 3rd Precinct to 10th &amp; Green Elementary School at 400 N. 10th St.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes one week after the board had approved permanently returning the polling location to Olivet Boys &amp; Girls Club at 722 Mulberry St. from Grace Bible Fellowship Church.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Michael Rivera, who leads the board, said the change was necessary because the Olivet Boys &amp; Girls Club was unable to secure its occupancy permit in time following renovations to the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school was kind enough to open their doors to us to be able to have the polling place there for this election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Letters will be sent to registered voters in the precincts to alert them of the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berks County election officials voted Thursday to approve an emergency polling place change in Reading. The election board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,836,3612,182,139,28,50,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-307326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-election","tag-election-2026","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307326","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=307326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}