EASTON, Pa. — Northampton County voters can now return mail-in ballots at 10 drop boxes, three more than the county had for the May primary.

The boxes opened Monday, but four close before the polls do on Election Day, Nov. 3, according to hours the county posted, and the state requires mail ballots to reach the county by 8 p.m. that night.

Those four are the East Allen Township Municipal Building, at 3:30 p.m.; the Washington Township Municipal Building near Bangor and the Lower Saucon Township Municipal Building, both at 4 p.m.; and the county Human Services Building in Bethlehem Township, at 7 p.m.

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The other six take ballots until 8 p.m.: Bethlehem City Hall, the NCC Fowler Family Southside Center in Bethlehem, the county courthouse in Easton, the Charles Chrin Community Center in Palmer Township, the Northampton Area Public Library and the county 911 Center in Upper Nazareth Township.

The 911 Center box is open around the clock, and the Chrin Center’s is the only other one open Sundays. The courthouse, Fowler Center, Human Services Building, Chrin Center, and library have Saturday hours.

The Lower Saucon, Chrin Center, and library boxes are new. The county Election Commission voted 3-2 on Sept. 1 to add them after Elections Registrar Chris Commini said grant money, not county funds, would pay for them. He said Lower Saucon was a priority because a polling place there had moved to Bethlehem.

“I think it’s important that we make voting accessible, especially when we know we have a sizable population who may not be able to get out on election day,” Commission Chair Sharon Gavin-Levy said at the meeting. Vice Chair Scott Hough’s bid to move an existing box instead failed.

At five more one-day county pop-ups, residents can register, apply for a mail-in ballot, fill it out and return it, the county has said:

  • Oct. 14, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., Pen Argyl Borough Hall, 11 N. Robinson Ave.
  • Oct. 15, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Farinon College Center, Lafayette College, Easton
  • Oct. 16, 9 a.m. to noon, Lower Saucon Township, 3700 Old Philadelphia Pike
  • Oct. 22, noon to 3 p.m., Hellertown Borough, 685 Main St.
  • Oct. 26, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Walnutport Borough, 417 Lincoln Ave.

The last two fall after the Oct. 19 registration deadline and won’t offer registration, the county’s flyer says.

Ballots can also be dropped off at the elections office on the courthouse’s lower level from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on most weekdays through Oct. 23, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Oct. 10, 17 and 24, the county said. Mail-in ballot applications are due by 5 p.m. Oct. 27.

District Attorney Stephen Baratta said in a release Tuesday that people should report election-law violations at a drop box or pop-up to local police or his office at 610-829-6638. His office handles crimes such as voter intimidation and ballot fraud, the release said.