Election Day 2022: What you need to know to vote in Bucks County

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the correct number of mail-in ballots Bucks County received by the deadline. The county received over 98,000 requests for ballots.

Pennsylvania will play host to one of the most consequential elections in the nation come Tuesday, and Bucks County voters are primed to have their voices heard and their ballots counted.

Voters will choose a U.S. senator to replace retiring Republican lawmaker Pat Toomey, and the state's new governor as Gov. Tom Wolf is term limited. It's also the first general election since new legislative and congressional maps were drawn so some voters, including those in some Bucks County towns, will elect representatives in new districts.

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Here's everything you need to know to vote in the General Election:

Election Day is Tuesday. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

To check your registration status, or update your address, party affiliation or other information, visit vote.pa.gov. It is too late to register for this election if you are a new voter.

In Bucks County, voters who go to the polls will not find the traditional poll books where they sign in. Those paper poll books have been replaced this year with electronic poll books.

Each of Bucks County's 307 precincts will use digital tablet poll books to sign in voters and verify signatures. These are connected to a closed operating system, and are not connected to the internet.

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How do I vote by mail? 

It's also too late to request a mail-in or absentee ballot online. However, "on demand" mail ballots are available at Bucks County election offices in Doylestown, Quakertown and Bristol, or in the Montgomery County Voter Services office in Norristown.

As of Wednesday, more than 79,000 ballots had been mailed to voters in Bucks County out of about 98,200 approved ballot applications, officials said. The rest were due to be sent by the end of last week. You may check the status of your application at the state election website.

For those who did receive a mail-in or absentee ballot, those completed mail ballots must be received by county election offices by 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Postmarks do not count. At this point, using the county drop boxes is your best bet.

Be sure to place your ballot in the secrecy envelope and sign and date the outside envelope.

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If taking advantage of a ballot drop-box, note that you can only deposit your own completed ballot. If you're unable to drop off or mail your ballot, you can fill out an authorized designated agent form allowing someone else to do it for you.

If you have a mail ballot but decide to vote in person, bring the entire ballot, including security envelope, to the polls. If you don't have the mail ballot but still show up to the polls to vote in person anyway, you'll be able to cast a provisional ballot. But counting your ballot could be delayed until it's determined you didn't also vote by mail.

Drop boxes are located at:

• Upper Bucks Government Services Center, 261 California Road, Quakertown. 8 a.m. to 4 :30 p.m. weekdays

• Lower Bucks Government Services Center, 7321 New Falls Road, Levittown. 8 a.m. to 4 :30 p.m. weekdays

• County Administration Building, 55 E. Court St., Doylestown. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays

• Bensalem Library, 3700 Hulmeville Road.

• Bristol Borough Hall, 250 Pond St.

• New Hope Library, 93 W. Ferry St.

• Northampton Library, 25 Upper Holland Road, Richboro.

• Perkasie Library, 491 Arthur Ave.

• Riegelsville Library, 615 Easton Road. Open until 5 p.m.

• Warminster Library, 1076 Emma Lane

• Yardley-Makefield Library, 1080 Edgewood Road

Hours vary at the library locations.

All drop boxes are supervised by a Board of Elections employee while the boxes are in operation. Ballots are collected from the boxes at least once per day, and returned to the main Board of Elections Office in Doylestown where they remain secured and unopened until 7 a.m. Election Day, officials said.

Voters may only return their own ballot unless they have been authorized as a designated agent for another voter.

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