Voting expands to Saturday hours; Satellite centers open next week

Early voting hours in Bartholomew County expands tomorrow with hours from 8 a.m.  to 3 p.m. at the voter registration office in the county courthouse this Saturday and next.

Next week, three satelite early voting centers will open. Those will be at Donner Center, Flintwood Wesleyan Church and the German American Bank on Jonathan Moore Pike. Hours at the satellite sites are Monday through Friday from 11 am.  to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Early voting also continues at the voter registration office during normal office hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., next week and ends at noon on Nov. 5th, the Monday before the election.

County Clerk Jay Phelps is reporting record high early voting numbers. He said that turnout this week had already passed 3,000 early voters, about five times the number in the 2006 and 2010 mid-term elections and four times that of 2014.