{"id":320389,"date":"2026-11-03T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320389\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:52:08","slug":"delaware-county-goes-to-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320389\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware County goes to the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voting was underway Tuesday morning in Delaware County with turnout moderate as residents were picking a governor, a representative in Congress, a state senator in some places and numerous Pennsylvania House seats have contested races.<\/p>\n

Early on Tuesday voting saw moderate lines, support for greenspace and \u201cchange\u201d at one Delaware County polling place.<\/p>\n

In Haverford 2-2 at Sacred Heart School, Judge of Elections Christina Jones was posting a sample ballot as a dozen voters waited for the doors to open while Democratic volunteer Greg Cunningham was handing out sample ballots.<\/p>\n

\"DemocraticDemocratic volunteer Greg Cunningham handing out sample ballots at Sacred Heart school Haverford 2-2. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n

The first voter, who had been in line for about 40 minutes declined to give his name but said he always comes early.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to get it done before work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it was the hour but others in the group also declined comment.<\/p>\n

When asked if this was an important election one voter said, \u201cEvery election is an important election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Down the road at Collenbrook United Church where both Upper Darby District 1 precincts 3 and 7 vote, John Finley was first in line with a couple of dozen people behind him<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a pretty huge line last year and I\u2019m just trying to get in before going to work,\u201d Finley said as the doors opened.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange\u201d and supporting the county referendum on open space seemed to be driving voters to the polls in Drexel Hill. The church sits next to the Mozino tract, which has been proposed for development and has been discussed at township meetings.<\/p>\n

Four volunteers were handing out material for the Democrats. There were no Republican volunteers on hand. In addition to sample ballots, the group was handing out fliers supporting the county referendum on green space, which could incur up to $120 million in debt.<\/p>\n

Volunteer Clare Ziff could be heard answering a voters\u2019 question on the referendum.<\/p>\n

\"AA sign supporting the county greenspace initiative at Collenbrook church in Drexel Hill. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no guarantee it would be used on the Mozino tract, but it would be a possible source of funding,\u201d Ziff told the woman. \u201cI\u2019m hoping you vote yes on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ziff said early indications are voters will support the referendum<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just talking to three ladies who did not want Democratic sample ballots, so I\u2019m guessing they are Republican \u2026 they all were very interested in what is going to happen to the Mozino tract,\u201d Ziff said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of things that was on the ballot was the woods, about the forest,\u201d said Denise Blessing. \u201cI am totally against tearing that down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to cost the county but in the long run it is going to be so totally worth it,\u201d said her husband Bob Blessing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m done with the chaos,\u201d said Joel Montes. \u201cThere is too much division, obviously the economy, and just the lowering of what it is to be an American. This is not who we are. We have to do something about it. We can\u2019t just sit on our hands and expect something to change. Things don\u2019t change by themselves. You have to make a change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChange \u2026 everything. It starts locally,\u201d said Martina Williams. \u201cI want to do my part to start the change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DemocraticDemocratic volunteers hand out information at Collenbrook United Church in Drexel Hill. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n

John Wells said he wanted to vote to support Gov. Josh Shapiro.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we need to support the governor and I like the initiative to save the parks. Those are the two main things,\u201d Wells said. \u201cI also think Scanlon is doing a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

For volunteers Ryan and Kori Kramer the recent change of polling locations, which moved one of the polls from a community room at the Drexelbrook across State Road to the church was of concern.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not terribly far but it is if you don\u2019t have a car it is,\u201d said Ryan Kramer.<\/p>\n

This story will be updated all day, so check back.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voting was underway Tuesday morning in Delaware County with turnout moderate as residents were picking a governor, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-320389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320389","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=320389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}