(INDIANAPOLIS) – Early voting is underway across Indiana for next Tuesday’s primary.
County clerks are required to open for early voting on the two Saturdays before Election Day. The 59 counties which use vote centers instead of precincts must have at least one center open in addition to the clerk’s office.
While those are minimum requirements, county election boards can open additional sites any time in the four weeks before Election Day.
Marion County has set up eight early-voting sites, its most ever, in addition to the clerk’s office. Those eight sites were open Saturday and Sunday, and will remain open through next Sunday.
Deputy election director Brent Stinson says about 1,300 people cast their votes in the county over the weekend, on top of nearly a thousand who have voted at the clerk’s office since early voting began nearly three weeks ago. That’s far lower than the county sees in presidential election years, but Stinson says having nine sites open should mean the county is prepared if things get busier than expected in the final week before Election Day.
