Bartholomew County early voting begins today at NexusPark.
In-person early voting will be at the former Petals and Vine store in the interior of NexusPark, 2252 25th St., weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from today to Nov. 4 and Nov. 7 from 8 a.m. to noon.
Early voting also will be held at the former Petals and Vine store from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. the two Saturdays prior to election day — Oct. 29 and Nov. 5.
Voters should enter the door between Rivieria Maya restaurant and Dunham’s Sports, which is different from last election.
There will be a banner at the door where voters should enter, as well as a greeter immediately inside to direct voters to the voting location. There also will be a wheelchair available for anyone who needs it.
Early-in person voting will also be held 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 29 and Nov. 5 in the Bartholomew County Council chambers in the Bartholomew County Governmental Office Building, 440 Third St., in downtown Columbus. No voting will be held at the Bartholomew County Courthouse.
Voters can also request absentee-by-mail ballots by contacting the Bartholomew County Voter Registration Office at 812-379-1604 or by going to indianavoters.in.gov.
The deadline to request an absentee-by-mail ballot is Oct. 27, and the deadline for the bipartisan Bartholomew County Election Board to receive an absentee-by-mail ballot is 6 p.m. on Election Day.
In the past, election officials have urged people who intend to return their ballots by mail to plan ahead in case of delays with the U.S. Postal Service.
Absentee-by-mail ballots also can returned in person at the Bartholomew County Courthouse, 234 Washington St., election officials said.
As of Monday, there were 53,298 registered voters in Bartholomew County, up 561 since this year’s primary, according county records.
This year, there are four contested Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. school board races and one contested Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp. school board race.
School board candidates are non-partisan, meaning that they are not on the Republican, Democratic or Libertarian tickets. It also means that voters who vote straight ticket will still have to manually select their choices for school board and must scroll on the ballot to those choices to make their selection.
