Primary Election Ballot Drop Boxes Open In Lower Bucks County

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —Bucks County’s Official Ballot Drop Boxes are now open for the May 16 primary election with mail-in and absentee ballots already being sent out to Lower Bucks County residents.

Drop boxes at county government buildings in Lower, Upper, and Central Bucks opened Monday and remain that way during regular county business hours, the Bucks County Board of Elections said.

Ballot boxes in libraries throughout the county are set to open next Monday, May 1.

For Lower Bucks, those libraries include Warminster, Bensalem, and Northampton townships and the Yardley-Makefield Library.

Each county ballot box is staffed by Board of Elections employees while open and is locked when not in use. All boxes are under 24/7 video surveillance.

Click here for a full listing of ballot box locations and their hours of operation.

Voters are only allowed to return their own ballot with the exception of those authorized as Designated Agents of another voter.

Voters are encouraged to fill out and return ballots as soon as possible by sealing their voted ballots in both the secrecy and return envelopes and either placing them in the mail or dropping it off at an official Ballot Box.

For those choosing to mail their ballots back to the Board of Elections Office, return postage this year has been paid by the County, as approved by a unanimous vote of the Bucks County Commissioners.

To be counted, mail-in and absentee ballots must be received by the Board of Elections by 8 p.m. on Election Day, May 16.

For more information about voting in Bucks County, visit BucksCounty.gov/Elections.