The county election bureau has processed more than 24,000 applications for mail-in and absentee ballots as of Tuesday, the deadline for both applications.

Applications submitted last week were taken to the post office for delivery, and the bureau is busy processing the last batch of applications.

“They had 24,236 applications processed so far. They've been keeping up with the volume,” Tom Victoria, county spokesman, said about the bureau staff.

Victoria did not have a breakdown of how many applications were for mail-in ballots and how many were for absentee ballots. Voters were allowed to submit the applications online, to the bureau in person or by mail.

If someone applied for and didn't receive a ballot, they might not have updated their address, Victoria said. If the address isn't updated, the ballot will be sent to the address on file, he said.

Applications received last week were processed, and those ballots were delivered to the post office for delivery Tuesday, said Leslie Osche, county commissioner chairwoman.

The rest of the applications will be processed as quickly as possible.

“Anything that came in over the weekend or today (Tuesday), they will turn around as quickly as they can,” Osche said. “I don't know how you can make the process any faster.”

The bureau processed more than 2,000 applications a day last week through a tedious process, she said.

Applications are sorted by precincts first, by party second and then alphabetically. After being processed, the ballots are matched to the printed mailing labels before all the material is stuffed in envelopes.

Online applications go to the Pennsylvania Department of State and applicants' voter registrations are checked automatically, but bureau staff verifies voter registrations for applications submitted by mail, she said.

“It's a tedious and long process — time consuming. It's not an easy thing. That department is doing a yeoman's job,” she said.