{"id":308876,"date":"2026-10-17T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308876\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:08:10","slug":"reading-naacp-urges-community-members-to-make-a-plan-to-vote-in-the-upcoming-midterm-election-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308876\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading NAACP urges community members to make a plan to vote in the upcoming midterm election | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading NAACP is urging the community to be informed, be prepared, and make a plan to vote in the upcoming midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>The Get Out the Vote event took place Saturday afternoon from 12 to 4 p.m. at Berks Lodge #47, located at 237 Walnut St.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, visitors could learn about voting options, absentee and mail-in ballots, and important voting deadlines. They could also register to vote and connect with local community services.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 to 3 p.m., a voter rally took place, which included engagement speakers, entertainment, and food.<\/p>\n<p>There were additionally various giveaways from local community partners, which were all first-come, first-served.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour vote counts, your vote matters. Our community, our voice, our power,\u201d the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=996252360161419&amp;set=a.103244529462211\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">event\u2019s flyer reads.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading NAACP is urging the community to be informed, be prepared, and make a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,836,14287,7291,736,128,130,129,1823,1824],"class_list":["post-308876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-election","tag-midterm-election","tag-naacp","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-vote","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308876","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=308876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}