As of Monday, 18,880 Luzerne County voters requested mail-in ballots for the May 18 primary election, county election director Bob Morgan said.
With 256 requests for absentee ballots received so far, that means 19,136 voters in the county have requested to vote by mail with five weeks to go before the primary.
Statewide, more than 587,000 voters have applied for mail-in ballots and more than 18,000 voters have applied for absentee ballots for the primary, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.
This year, unlike most primary elections, some of those requests might come from voters registered with third parties or registered as nonpartisan.
Those voters may not select candidates in the Democratic and Republican primaries, but they may vote on four statewide ballot questions.
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The Luzerne County Board of Elections will choose a new chairperson this week â which might end the recent turnover among county election officials.
The selection will follow public interviews of three citizens who applied for the chairperson position, at a special meeting of the board at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
County council appoints four of the five members of the election board, which certifies the results of county elections. Council appoints two members from each of the major political parties, as stipulated by the county charter.
Those four members then appoint a fifth member, of any political affiliation, to serve as chairperson.