(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Chester County, Pa. election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots at West Chester University in West Chester on Nov. 4, 2020. Law enforcement agencies, civil defense officials and election administrators have begun meeting in Pennsylvania to coordinate how they will identify and fight election threats with the presidential contest just eight months away in the battleground state, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration said Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt reminded voters, in his eighth and final pre-election virtual media briefing, that the deadline to apply for a mail ballot (click here to do so) for the November 3rd election is here.

The deadline was yesterday at 5 p.m.

You can go to vote.pa.gov to apply online, and voters should complete their ballot and immediately return it to their county elections office.

People can either drop it off at their county elections office or they can drop it off at an authorized drop box if their county has one.

Mail ballots must be received at respective county elections offices by 8 p.m. on Election Day for them to count.