Montgomery County Voter Services said Monday it would restrict media access inside county polling places and ballot counting areas this year. Access was limited but not forbidden last year. It was open during earlier years.
If you see someone tampering with any of Montgomery County’s 12 ballot drop-off boxes, or interfering with any official election activity, call the District Attorney’s phone tip line at 610-292-2022.
Montgomery County's Voter Services Department is dealing with separate verification of earlier misprinted ballots, and the failure of selected scanning machines to read ballot markings. Both will delay vote counts, it said.
Incumbent Lower Pottsgrove Township commissioners Earl Swavely and Ray Lopez appear to have won re-election Tuesday, in a unusually tight - by local standards - battle against two newcomers.
Only about a third of eligible Montgomery County voters cast ballots on Election Day 2021, according to county Voter Services. Poll watchers cited three causes: rain, cold, and the lack of "a big draw."
Locations in Pottstown, Royersford, Skippack and Upper Frederick have been named by Montgomery County Voter Services as secure ballot drop-off sites for the Nov. 2 general election. They'll open Oct. 16.
Four of 16 Montgomery County ballot drop-off sites for the May 2021 primary election will be located across the county's western half, the county Board of Elections said Tuesday.
Polling Places 1, 2, and 4 in the township will relocated for the 2021 primary and general elections, the Montgomery County Board of Elections agreed Thursday. Two of the three sites are unavailable.
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