Changes at the polls: what you need to know to make sure your vote counts
Polls are open in Pennsylvania until 8 pm. Mail-in ballots are also due at that time. Postmarks do not count. Author: Jamie Bittner (FOX43) Updated: 5:17 PM EDT May 18, 2021
A steady stream of people arrived to drop off their mail-in ballots and cast their votes in polling places for Pennsylvania s primary election day Tuesday. However, in most polling locations the long lines visible during the Presidential election of 2020 were gone.
In York County, leaders told FOX43 they counted nearly 100,000 mail-in ballots for the Presidential election. In 2021, the county was expecting 25,564. As of Tuesday morning the county had received 16,016 of those votes. Once again in Pennsylvania, counties were not allowed to begin the process of opening mail-in ballots until 7 am on election day. Overall in Pennsylvania, 800,000 people requested a mail-in ballot.
Election Returns Website Will Provide First Look at Tuesday’s Primary Election Results
05/17/2021
Harrisburg, PA – With Tuesday s municipal primary election just one day away, Acting Secretary of State Veronica W. Degraffenreid today reminded Pennsylvanians that the Department of State s election night returns website offers up-to-the-minute results. The public, candidates and the media can find the most complete picture of how Pennsylvanians voted on our election returns site, Secretary Degraffenreid said. We collaborate with all 67 county election offices to consolidate results as soon as they are available.
The electionreturns.pa.gov site will provide for each race a breakdown of votes cast at polling places on Election Day, votes cast by mail ballot and votes cast by provisional ballot. The department will post unofficial results on the site as it receives reports from counties after the polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day.
From staff reports
LOCK HAVEN “We’re ready to go,” Clinton County Director of Voter Registration Marie Boileau said of the upcoming May 18 Primary Election as she updated the Clinton County commissioners during their work session on Monday morning.
Boileau said everything’s in order and the county has found the necessary number of people to staff the polls on election day.
On May 18, voters who are registered as Republican or Democrat will choose their parties’ nominees for seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Superior Court, Commonwealth Court, county Common Pleas Courts, and Philadelphia Municipal Court.
Also on the party ballots will be a wide variety of county, school board, and local seats such as mayor, city or borough council member, township commissioner or supervisor, and precinct election officials.
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As a civilized society, we are all appalled by the actions of former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis when he murdered George Floyd last May. It was reported that Chauvin had at least 17 complaints lodged against him during his tenure with the Minneapolis Police Department.
In the private sector, where employment is âat willâ â meaning an employee can be dismissed for any reason â an employee such as Chauvin would have been terminated years before his murderous actions on May 25, 2020. Why was he still on this police force?
The answer lies in the legal structure of police officer employment, a structure decidedly different than in the private sector. Â