{"id":316605,"date":"2026-10-29T04:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316605\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T04:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:08:23","slug":"pa-lt-gov-austin-davis-casts-mail-ballot-urges-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316605\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. Lt. Gov. Austin Davis casts mail ballot, urges vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793246903_558_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Austin Boley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">More than 930,000 ballots have been returned to county boards of election in Pennsylvania as of Wednesday morning, representing a 71% return rate.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, who is running for re-election, cast his vote by mail and spoke with a Hearst sister station in western Pennsylvania after submitting his ballot.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;I want to encourage folks to make a plan to vote, to get out there and let their voices be heard. The stakes could not be higher in this midterm election, and the contrast could not be clearer between our ticket and the ticket. We&#8217;re running to move Pennsylvania forward,&#8221; Davis said.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Davis and Gov. Josh Shapiro are running against Treasurer Stacy Garrity and attorney Jason Richey on the Republican ticket. Garrity and Richey have campaigned on lowering costs, cutting property taxes, and regulating data center development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 930,000 ballots have been returned to county boards of election in Pennsylvania as of Wednesday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[129094,129087,129085,129086,129092,15815,53343,129084,42310,836,48231,15517,442,48793,33,48794,129089,53361,70960,129090,14287,129091,28,30,29,6687,41376,129088,8060,1621,129093,1823,98847,6988,1419,2812],"class_list":["post-316605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-return-rate","tag-000-ballots","tag-71-return-rate","tag-129086","tag-attorney-jason-richey","tag-austin-davis","tag-county-board","tag-county-boards","tag-data-center-development","tag-election","tag-garrity","tag-gov-austin-davis","tag-gov-josh-shapiro","tag-jason-richey","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-lieutenant-governor","tag-lowering-costs","tag-mail-ballot","tag-mail-in-ballot","tag-make-a-plan-to-vote","tag-midterm-election","tag-pa-lt","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-property-taxes","tag-re-election","tag-republican-ticket","tag-stacy-garrity","tag-ticket","tag-treasurer-stacy-garrity","tag-vote","tag-vote-by-mail","tag-wednesday-morning","tag-western-pennsylvania","tag-wgal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316605","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=316605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}