(La Porte County, IN) - Early voting in La Porte County is now over.
It ended at noon today at all four locations in La Porte, Michigan City, Coolspring Township, and Wanatah, where people were voting early by machine.
Through Saturday, La Porte County Clerk Heather Stevens said 7,850 people voted early by machine.
Stevens said another 1,600 people voted by absentee ballot while nearly 350 people cast ballots in the mobile voting unit.
Another 180 people voted after given ballots by members of a local traveling board.
In 2020, just over 19,000 people in La Porte County voted early by machine, or more than twice as many as this year, according to the vote tabulation record at the county clerk’s office.
Interest is high among voters this year because of local races combined with the fight over which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. But, Stevens said 2020 was a presidential year. Voter turnout is always higher when the race for the White House is on the ballot.
In 2018, the last midterm election, LaPorte County had 37,792 voters, representing 49.01% of registered voters in the county.
Tomorrow is officially Election Day nationwide. The polls in Indiana are open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
