Dave Askins

On Tuesday, Kerry Thomson won a clear 10-point victory over second-place finisher Susan Sandberg in the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for mayor of Bloomington. [.pdf file of 2023 unofficial primary election results] Thomson did not get a majority of the 8,012 votes in the

Primary Election Day polls for May 2, 2023 have now closed in Monroe County. The cutoff time was 6 p.m., which made for a 12-hour voting day. But anyone in line by 6 p.m. has to be allowed to cast a ballot. Bloomington voters are electing party

“The polls are open and all is well.” That was the opening line from an email sent by Monroe County clerk Nicole Browne at 6:09 a.m today, Tuesday, May 2. Bloomington voters are electing party nominees for mayor, clerk, and nine city council seats. Ellettsville voters are electing

Final preparations for tomorrow’s May 2 primary elections in Bloomington and Ellettsville are now pretty much complete. Monroe County’s election board met on Monday evening at Election Central at Madison and 7th streets to field telephoned questions from the workers at the 18 polling locations, who were setting

On Friday, when a tour group of elected and appointed officials arrived at the Monroe County jail’s laundry room, two industrial-sized dryers were spinning, which made the area smell like freshly washed clothes. Leading the tour was jail commander Kyle Gibbons, who said about the laundry, “This is

Based on current early voting numbers, as many as 8,000 voters could participate in Bloomington’s 2023 primary elections. That would be a 60-percent increase over turnout for the 2019 primaries, when around 5,000 voters cast a ballot for Bloomington mayor in the Democratic Party’s primary.