The County administers state and federal election laws at the local level.  The County Commissioners, as the Board of Elections and the Registration Commission, determine matters of policy and delegate the administration of the election process to the Registrar.  In order to vote in Bedford County a voter must be a resident of the county and may register in person at the Commissioners Office located at 211 South Juliana Street, Bedford, or by mail, or at a number of state agencies including the PennDOT Drivers License Bureau.  Voter registration applications are also available at most local post offices or you may request a Pennsylvania Voter Registration Mail Application by e-mail: pkoenig@bedfordcountypa.org.  Please include name, address and phone number in your message.

 

Bedford County's office of Voter Registration and Elections mission is to provide quality services with the highest level of integrity, efficiency and accuracy in voter registration and in the election process.

 

Margaret A. Koenig

Director of Elections/Registrar

 

Dorothy Vensel

Elections Clerk

 

Write to:

Bedford County Voter Registration

211 South Juliana Street

Bedford PA 15522

 

Phone: (814) 623-4807

Fax: (814) 623-0991

e-mail: pkoenig@bedfordcountypa.org

 

Office hours: 8:30 am - 4:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday

 

Bedford County is a 6th Class County.  We have 42 voting precincts.  Voter registration is approximately 28,000.

 

The county operates with a central tabulation system with optical scan voting, paper ballots.