Local election officials are gearing up for midterm elections by helping voters prepare in Camden County and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
“Convenience, accessibility, all very important,” said Camden County Clerk Pamela Lampitt.<\/p>\n
With two weeks to go until midterm elections, Lampitt is on an election services tour.<\/p>\n
“Remote ballot printing,” Lampitt said. “This is the ability to take a very large printer, a laptop with all the security measures that we need for people.”<\/p>\n
“Rest assured, we’re still going to do all of the due diligence that’s necessary to ensure the fact that you are who you are,” Lampitt said.<\/p>\n
Lampitt’s office is answering questions and making it easier for residents who need a mail-in ballot during the first of three election services events at Cold Springs Elementary in Gloucester City.<\/p>\n
They’ll have another Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Camden County College’s Blackwood Campus from noon to 5 p.m., and then on Friday from noon to 5 p.m. at the Camden County Library’s Voorhees Branch.<\/p>\n
Lampitt said registered voters in the county can also sign up to vote by mail during their mobile events.<\/p>\n
“We want to make sure that people know it’s safe and secure and that the state is doing their job as well,” Lampitt said.<\/p>\n
Election officials are echoing that same message in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
“We want as many people as possible to vote before Election Day,” said Omar Sabir, Chairman of Philadelphia City Commissioners.<\/p>\n
Sabir said there are several options at 11 satellite election offices.<\/p>\n
“Where you could walk in, request your ballot, reprint a ballot out on the spot, and you’ll be eligible to vote and get your civic obligation out of the way,” Sabir said.<\/p>\n
For those who vote in person, they’re expecting accuracy that officials ensure will happen.<\/p>\n
“If I took the time out to go and vote, sometimes it’s during work hours, I want to know that it’s being counted,” said Crystal McGhie of Gloucester County, N.J.<\/p>\n
“We have our reasons for why we vote, and it should go in the way that we’re voting,” said Tara Ranck of Burlington County, N.J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local election officials are gearing up for midterm elections by helping voters prepare in Camden County and Philadelphia.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-310982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310982","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=310982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}