Residents in several voting precincts will see a slightly different procedure from previous elections as the county experiments with a new system for tracking who is eligible to vote.
Before her 1-year-old son contracted the novel coronavirus, Brittany Rasnake was already behind on bills.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Rasnake said, she left her factory job to take care of him when his daycare closed. She went on unemployment. Eventually, she said, she was able to pay her rent for October and November.
With doctor’s orders to quarantine, that meant she’d have to miss time from her new job at a feed mill in East Berlin.
“I was basically playing catch-up on everything,” said Rasnake, 26, who also delivers groceries part-time on the side.
But after falling behind again on rent for December, her landlord at York Village Apartments in Penn Township filed for eviction.