By Andy East
Bartholomew County election officials mailed out 3,661 absentee ballots to voters on Monday for the Nov. 3 election in what officials believe is an all-time record.
On Monday, “multiple” election officials dropped off eight “large boxes” –each filled with hundreds of ballots — at the post office to be mailed to voters, said Bartholomew County Clerk Jay Phelps.
Several more boxes of ballots were scheduled to go out on Tuesday, Phelps said.
“I think the post office was a little surprised, but I told them, ‘This is just round one,'” Phelps said.
The number of ballots sent out on Monday, plus the additional 1,000 expected to be put in the mail on Tuesday, is more than the total of all absentee-by-mail votes cast in Bartholomew County during the previous three presidential elections combined.
For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Republic.
