Bucks Co. Ballot Drop Box Hours Extended Before Election

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Ballot drop boxes in Bucks County are now open for extended hours and also will be available to voters this weekend ahead of Election Day on Nov. 3.

The three drop boxes, located in Levittown, Doylestown and Quakertown, were opened Oct. 5. Extended hours began last week. The hours for the drop boxes between now and Election Day will be:

• Monday, Oct. 26-Friday, Oct. 30: 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 31 and Sunday, Nov. 1: noon-5 p.m.
• Monday, Nov. 2: 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
• Tuesday, Nov. 3 (Election Day): 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

Voters may drop off only their own ballot at any of the three locations. They must be placed inside both the small secrecy envelope and the large return envelope.

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Here are the locations for the Bucks County ballot drop boxes, which are monitored by sheriff's deputies and other security personnel:

• Upper Bucks Government Services Center, 261 California Rd., Quakertown
• Bucks County Administration Building, 55 E. Court St., Doylestown
• Lower Bucks Government Services Center, 7321 New Falls Rd., Levittown

This year, as many as 200,000 of Bucks County's 470,000 eligible voters are expected to vote by mail-in or absentee ballot — a number dramatically increased over previous years due to concerns about the lingering coronavirus pandemic.

Election officials said that while there have been a handful of concerns about requested ballots not arriving quickly, they are, for the most part, pleased with how the system has worked. They said the county's first ballots were sent to voters on Oct. 7 and, by Oct. 9, some people were already dropping off their ballots at county elections offices.