Could casting your ballot at your neighborhood voting precinct soon be a thing of the past?
Butler County Elections Bureau Director Shari Brewer said Pennsylvania is a state needing election reform and it all comes down to cost.
“It’s just not efficient,” Brewer said.
Under current law, there must be a voting precinct within every municipality but that could change.
“When you have little boroughs that have less than 50 registered voters and you have to pay poll workers to be there all day…it’s just not efficient,” she said.
Brewer has been recently appointed to a state committee studying the cost of voting system technology and what could be done differently.
Three states- Colorado, Oregon and Washington- have eliminated polling sites entirely and rely solely on mailed ballots.
Or, we could transition to Voting Centers, which would mean instead of having a voting site in every municipality, there would be roughly 10 sites in different regions of the county where people would go to vote.
Brewer said either option, or a mixture of both, would severely reduce costs.
Thursday marks exactly two months until the November presidential election.
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