County Elections Director Dave Voye told the county's three-member Board of Elections on Tuesday that election workers had received roughly 136,700 mail-in ballots so far. That's an improvement over the 2021 tally of slightly more than 123,000 ballots by the same stage of the election cycle, but well behind the total the county received at a similar point in 2020.
Allegheny County is assembling its army of poll workers for this fall's election. At least 3,100 people have already told the county they are interested in working at voting places.
Allegheny County took several steps to address high voter turnout anticipated in the 2020 election, launching mail-in ballot information campaigns, satellite voting offices and ballot drop boxes, but those methods haven’t been brought back. At Wednesday’s Allegheny County Election Board meeting in Downtown Pittsburgh, Department of Administrative Services Director Jessica
It takes about 6,500 people to staff the county’s 1,323 polling places for in-person voters on Election Day. But the county still needs 2,000 more people to sign up.