{"id":148131,"date":"2026-03-16T22:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=148131"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:04:30","slug":"casting-of-lots-for-2026-primary-election-ballot-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=148131","title":{"rendered":"Casting of Lots for 2026 Primary Election Ballot Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WHO:\u00a0<\/strong>Northampton County Elections Division<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:\u00a0<\/strong>Casting of Lots for 2026 Primary Election Ballot Order<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:\u00a0<\/strong>March 18, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:\u00a0<\/strong>Northampton County Government Center, 669 Washington Street, Easton, PA 18042 \u2013 Council Chambers on 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Floor<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOTICE<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Casting of lots will be held on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. prevailing time to determine the order in which the candidates\u2019 names are to appear on the May 19, 2026 General Primary ballot. Located at the Northampton Government Center, 669 Washington St., Easton, PA 18042, in County Council Chambers on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Floor.<\/p>\n<p>Casting of lots is open to the public and media and will also be live-streamed on the County\u2019s YouTube Channel:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wo6djquab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001v5fxzCdcCxkQeSX1eznPlY6OiLDmihCwp3L2_xAEPDSPrP1SlskpV8n2i3UHThcQMLLlZFSR92fcUFJ4KbYzCUScpMxQSm8mUIRBv0V3zOzjy01nNmvtiSSV1G2A9DdKmVo9nCy1tvloPUyVwBro6kgtZW8T_eoJGVBfMzQzvM-Cs7uR_fwGmg==&amp;c=jGj80IDuRSsehabLYCBCnn0P8PtV7s44fGhegXyZms-aoU_ygilGSg==&amp;ch=P2Uz5B5pyNaxU74MKKL9f3dWpBT87CYaYO5eLg3j3MIfjHK0izcP0Q==\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@northamptoncounty6960<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nNorthampton County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO:\u00a0Northampton County Elections Division\u00a0 WHAT:\u00a0Casting of Lots for 2026 Primary Election Ballot Order\u00a0 WHEN:\u00a0March 18, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.\u00a0 WHERE:\u00a0Northampton County Government Center, 669 Washington Street, Easton, PA 18042 \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=148131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Casting of Lots for 2026 Primary Election Ballot Order<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NC-Northampton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}