Tuesday is the last day to apply for a mail-in or civilian absentee ballot for next week\u2019s midterm elections featuring a governor\u2019s race, local races in the 8th and 9th Congressional Districts and numerous state House and Senate races across the region.<\/p>\n
The Oct. 27 application deadline comes just over a week after the deadline to register to vote in the midterms passed, and exactly a week before Election Day, Nov. 3.<\/p>\n
Because county elections departments must have completed mail-in ballot applications in-hand by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Lackawanna County Elections Director Beth Hopkins said the safest way for prospective voters to ensure access to a mail-in ballot is to apply online or in person at their county\u2019s election office. Registered voters who miss Tuesday\u2019s deadline for a mail-in ballot can still vote at their polling place on Election Day.<\/p>\n
Voters can return their completed mail-in ballot \u2014 which county elections departments must receive by 8 p.m. on Nov. 3 \u2014 by mail, by hand delivering it to their county\u2019s election office or, in counties where they\u2019re available, by depositing it in a secure ballot drop box.<\/p>\n
Both Lackawanna and Luzerne counties deployed drop boxes for that purpose, and a comprehensive list of mail-in ballot return locations<\/a> by county is available online via pa.gov\/agencies\/vote<\/a>. Mail-in ballot application materials are also available via that website, via pavoterservices.pa.gov<\/a> and via the websites for individual county elections departments.<\/p>\n Lackawanna County voters have access to six drop boxes, five of which will remain accessible this week until noon Friday. Those drop box sites and hours include:<\/p>\n Carbondale: Fallbrook Senior Community Center, 185 Fallbrook St., 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Clarks Summit: Borough Building, 304 S. State St., 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n Dickson City: Municipal Building, 901 Enterprise St., 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n Moosic: Borough Building, 715 Main St., 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n Roaring Brook Twp.: Municipal Building, 430 Blue Shutters Road, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n Only the drop box located in the first-floor lobby of the Lackawanna County Government Center, 123 Wyoming Ave., Scranton, will remain available until the polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day. The government center drop box is accessible weekdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and will be accessible Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; the county\u2019s elections office is located on the second floor of the government center.<\/p>\n Luzerne County has drop boxes available at Hazleton City Hall, the Penn Place Building lobby and the election bureau office in Penn Place, 20 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n The hours for the drop box in the Penn Place lobby are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays except for Thursday, when it\u2019s available from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., while the hours for the drop box inside the election bureau office on the second floor of Penn Place are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays. Both Penn Place drop boxes will be accessible until 8 p.m. on Election Day, when the polls close.<\/p>\n The drop box at Hazleton City Hall, 40 N. Church St., is accessible weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will close at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, the day before the election.<\/p>\n For those planning to vote in person, Election Day polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday is the last day to apply for a mail-in or civilian absentee ballot for next week\u2019s midterm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3099,1993,1099,836,6520,201,182,803,1214,139,28,50,34430,178,180,179,2685],"class_list":["post-314677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-carbondale","tag-clarks-summit","tag-dickson-city","tag-election","tag-hazleton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-moosic","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-roaring-brook-township","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-wilkes-barre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314677","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=314677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}