Early voting available in parts of Pennsylvania as Trump urges Republican turnout

Pennsylvania voters can cast a mail ballot in person before election day where county ballots are ready, an option Donald Trump promoted to Republicans in a Truth Social post on 3 October 2026. Registered voters can request, receive, complete and submit the ballot in one visit to a county election office or designated location. Ordinary polling stations do not open before election day. [1] [2] [6]

Availability varies by county: Allegheny and Philadelphia were accepting on-demand voting requests, while Lancaster had mailed ballots but was not yet offering that service. [3] In remarks transcribed by Trump’s Truth, Trump described in-person early voting as available in ‘much of Pennsylvania’ and said it would be available statewide from 20 to 27 October. [1]

He also asked voters to act as though he were on the ballot, claiming that 45% fewer people vote when he is not. He did not specify which elections or voters he meant. [1] Pennsylvania’s presidential-election figures include 2012, when Trump was not a candidate, and express turnout as percentages of registered voters and of the voting-age population. [8]

Trump said he wanted to make the election ‘too big to rig’. Pennsylvania’s election authority says there is no evidence of widespread mail-voting fraud in the state. [1] [6]

The appeal follows a separate post on 15 September in which Trump called mail-in voting corrupt. That criticism followed the Supreme Court’s 14 September refusal to suspend a preliminary injunction against new US Postal Service ballot-mail rules. Those rules will not apply to the November election, and Pennsylvania’s mail-voting law remains unchanged. [9] [7] [6]

The in-person procedure Trump is now promoting uses a mail ballot but requires no postal delivery. Officials process the voter’s application while they wait; returned mail ballots cannot be opened and prepared for counting until 7am on election day. [2] [6]