Election drop boxes open at Bucks County offices this week for mail-in ballots

Peg Quann, Bucks County Courier Times
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In preparation for next month's general election, Bucks County has started sending out mail-in ballots to county residents who requested them and opened its first drop boxes Monday for voters who want to submit their mail-in ballots at a secure location.

More than 69,000 ballots already had been mailed to voters out to voters by Thursday, county officials said. Some 74,000 Bucks County voters have already been approved for ballot applications.

Voters have until Nov. 1 to request a mail-in ballot.

A sign reads '1 person 1 ballot' as voters start to return their mail-in ballots to the county drop box Friday, May 13, 2022 at Bucks County Administration Building in Doylestown.
A sign reads '1 person 1 ballot' as voters start to return their mail-in ballots to the county drop box Friday, May 13, 2022 at Bucks County Administration Building in Doylestown.

The drop boxes open now and their times of operation are:

  • 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

These locations will also be open noon to 5 p.m. on Saturdays, Oct. 29 and Nov. 5.

Ballot drop boxes will open the week of Oct. 24 at eight libraries located throughout the county.

County library locations that will have drop boxes then are:

  • 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.

Voters insert their mail-in ballots into drop boxes outside the Bucks County Administration Building in Doylestown Borough on Monday, October 19, 2020.
Voters insert their mail-in ballots into drop boxes outside the Bucks County Administration Building in Doylestown Borough on Monday, October 19, 2020.

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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 to a dop box unless they have been authorized as a designated agent for another voter. Voters with mail-in ballots can also mail them directly to the Board of Elections, so long as they are received by the board by 8 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 8.

People who want to vote but haven't yet registered have until Oct. 24 to do so and those registered voters who want a mail-in or absentee ballot have until Nov. 1 to request one.

Anyone who decides they want to vote in person on Election Day after requesting a mail-in ballot should bring the ballot with them to the polls. If they don't have the mail-in ballot, they will vote by a provisional ballot until the election board can determine if they already voted by mail.

For more information, visit the Board of Elections website at https://www.buckscounty.gov/1252/Board-of-Elections.

Getting people to register to vote is Mary Singleton, left, of the New Pennsylvania Project, as she chats with Elder Thompson, of Bristol Borough, and his granddaughter, Zarah Thompson, 4, of Levittown, during Boots on the Ground Foundation's second annual Unity Day in Bristol Borough, on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022.
Getting people to register to vote is Mary Singleton, left, of the New Pennsylvania Project, as she chats with Elder Thompson, of Bristol Borough, and his granddaughter, Zarah Thompson, 4, of Levittown, during Boots on the Ground Foundation's second annual Unity Day in Bristol Borough, on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022.

This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Bucks County drop boxes for mail-in ballots open this week at county offices