Election workers and volunteers pre-canvass mail-in ballots inside the Lancaster County Government Center at 150 N. Queen St., during the 2025 municipal election.
The Lancaster County elections office received 37,048 mail ballots by Monday morning, county officials said, about 3,500 less than the number received the day before the 2022 midterm election.
At a Board of Elections meeting Monday, elections director Christa Miller said the number of completed ballots received was 84% of the 44,302 requested by county voters. Mail-in voters have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to return their ballot to the county elections office .
At the same point four years ago, during the last gubernatorial election, Miller reported 40,501 mail ballots had been returned out of 48,824 requests, or 83% of the number requested.
Total turnout for all county voters in 2022 was 63.4%. Whether the smaller number of mail ballots requested by voters this year translates to lower turnout than four years ago is an open question. Concerns about the reliability of the U.S. Postal Service may have pushed more voters to decide to go to the polls on Election Day instead.