Early voter turnout for Tuesday’s municipal general election was stronger than that during the May primary in Porter County and down slightly in Lake County.
Porter County Clerk Jessica Bailey said traffic at the county’s early voting sites has been heavier than it had been in May. Early voting ended noon Monday. There were 4,598 voters who showed up in person to cast their ballot, Bailey said. Another 713 returned a mail-in absentee ballot and 116 voted through the travel board. There were also two email ballots received from overseas or military residents. A total 7,458 ballots were case in the primary, according to county records.
In Lake County, Michelle Fajman, election board director, said 12,518 early votes were cast across the county’s 11 early voting locations compared to 13,483 during the primary. Another 1,383 mail-in ballots have been turned in as of Nov. 4 with two days left for mail-in votes to be received. The total mail-in ballots received in the primary was 2,076. Still, the numbers so far are greater than they were in 2019 across the 11 voting sites. “We want to see early voting growing,” Fajman said.
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