Attention Monroe County voters: Check your polling location

Monroe County voters should keep any eye out for a yellow postcard mailing that should be arriving in their mailboxes starting around April 7—because it will include the location where they should cast their ballot in the May 5 primary election.

The mailing will be sent out by the local voter registration office, which is headed up by election supervisor Kylie Farris.

Monroe County still has a precinct-based polling location system, unlike most Indiana counties, which use vote centers where voters registered in any precinct can vote.

Knowing the correct voting location is not as easy this year, because many voters are assigned to locations different from the place they have voted in past years. The old NAPA Auto Parts store in downtown Bloomington, where voters in several precincts cast their ballots, was demolished to make way for the convention center expansion. Fairview Elementary School has been replaced by the location in the North Showers building, where early voting also takes place. Finally, South Side Christian Church is under renovation, so it can’t serve as a polling location this year.

The full list of 28 polling locations, for both primary and general elections in 2026, was approved by Monroe County commissioners on Thursday (March 26), after the election board approved them in mid-February.

The Indiana secretary of state’s office maintains a voting location lookup service, where voters can check their own polling locations.

Farris told commissioners at their Thursday meeting that her office had initially been working on a list of 29 sites, but that number settled at 28 after Southside Christian Church had to withdraw as a polling place due to damage to the building from the 2025 tornado.

Key dates

Last day to register to vote: April 6, 2026
Early voting begins: April 7, 2026
Early voting ends: May 4, 2026 at noon
Election Day: May 5, 2026