Anyone who has been pondering a run for public office should consider this a good time to make that impulse a reality.
The petition period – the time during which candidates for the May 20 primary election in Pennsylvania – opened on Tuesday, Feb. 18. According to the website for the Lebanon County Bureau of Elections and Voter Registration, the petition window closes on Tuesday, March 11.
In an email on Wednesday to LebTown, Lebanon County director of elections Sean D. Drasher said he is updating County Commissioners on Thursday “on the state of the Municipal Primary election cycle.”
“Spoiler: Its going extremely well!” he wrote. “The one concern we have is that so few people are currently running. We have around 100 offices that are up for grabs across the County, as well as 180 poll worker jobs. So close to 300 open seats and we’ve only had around 40 people come by our office to pick up the materials they need to run. That’s CRAZY!”
There are nearly three weeks remaining before the window closes, so Drasher is hopeful traffic in and out of the elections office will increase.
“We are hoping it’s the cold weather keeping people from getting out there,” he said. “Hopefully things start to heat up in the next couple of weeks in more ways than one.”
However, he stressed, “we need candidates for basically all offices.”
Drasher asked LebTown to help spread the word. “Shout it to the hilltops,” he stressed. “LEBANON COUNTY, PLEASE RUN FOR OFFICE!”
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