First week of in-person early voting in Monroe County closes out with about 100 voters per day

The first four days of early in-person voting are in the books for Monroe County.

Primary Election Day is May 7. But voters can cast a ballot early in person for the next three weeks.

As of around 4 p.m. on Friday, since the start of in-person early voting on Tuesday, 392 people had cast a ballot in Monroe County, according to election division staff.

Monroe County’s early in-person location is the election operations center, located at 3rd and Walnut streets.

Another 143 absentee ballots have been returned so far, out of the 818 that were mailed out.

There are more than 91,000 registered voters in Monroe County.

For the primary elections in 2022, the combined turnout in Monroe County for the Democratic Party primary and the Republican Party primary was around 13,000 voters.

In 2020, a combined total of about 26,000 voters participated in Monroe County primaries.

In 2016, a combined total of about 38,000 voters participated in Monroe County primaries

Voters who want to preview their ballot can check the Indiana Voter Portal. Some background on candidates, including links to their websites, can be found on the League of Women Voters Vote411 profiles.

For those who want to add the early voting schedule to their organization’s calendar, or to their personal calendar, this syndicated feed includes all the dates and times listed the table below: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/369d27c7a9322083baac00a06ca3b0479be0774c6f40c0ab7c86c0659426ef0b%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics