Early voting in Monroe County for the Nov. 8 election is now over.
Closing at noon on Monday were the polls at the election operations building at 3rd and Walnut streets in downtown Bloomington.
Voting hours for Election Day, at assigned polling locations throughout the county, extend from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The pace of early in-person voting in Monroe County has increased by a lot in the final week before the Tuesday Nov. 8 election.
The increased early-voting numbers were evident on Monday. For much of the morning, a line of voters wrapped around the north end of the election operations building.
At around 11:45, which was 15 minutes before the polls closed, The B Square counted around 40 people standing in line outside. Sunny skies and a temperature in the low 60s meant the wait was not as unpleasant as it might have been.
The line moved pretty fast. In the four hours of early voting on Tuesday, from 8 a.m. to noon, 977 people were able to cast a ballot. That works out to 244 voters an hour, the highest voter throughput for any day during this year’s early voting period, or for the presidential election in 2020. Continue reading “Early voting wraps up in Monroe County, polls open on Election Day at 6 a.m.”
