Polling locations in Luzerne County will be available from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for today’s primary election.
You can find a list of all polling places on the main page of the election bureau's website at luzernecounty.org.
Voters at the polls will use touchscreen machines to make their selections. They will then receive a paper ballot printout to confirm their choices. After reviewing this printout, they must feed the paper into a tabulator in order to cast the ballot.
Completed mail ballots must physically reach the county election bureau by 8 p.m. on election night, and postmarks will not be considered.
The only drop box available on Election Day is located in the county’s Penn Place Building, 20 N. Pennsylvania Ave., in Wilkes-Barre, open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Voters can contact 570-825-1715 or email [email protected] for assistance or to report any issues.
Unofficial county results will be posted and updated at luzernecounty.org after the polls close.
The state’s electionreturns.pa.gov website will provide updated unofficial results for state races.
On Monday, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt announced that the state's website has been improved to allow voters to navigate between statewide and county-level results in a more user-friendly and intuitive way.
Visitors to the site can customize their searches, get timely updates, view results on mobile devices, and use a location-based service through the “My County” link to instantly access their county’s election returns, according to a release.
Schmidt also reminded voters that counties are not allowed to begin pre-canvassing mail ballots until 7 a.m. on Election Day.
“While we know everyone will be eager to know the results, ensuring each vote is accurately and securely counted is the top priority,” added Schmidt.
As of Monday morning, county election offices had received back more than 563,000 of the 895,000 mail ballots sent to eligible voters who requested them, Schmidt said.
