(La Porte County, IN) - Voter turnout in La Porte County appears strong but nowhere near what it was during the presidential election in 2020.

 

Poll worker Miles Fettinger at Agape Christian Church at 1601 I Street in La Porte said voters were coming in at a steady pace this morning. But, unlike the election in 2020, he said nobody to this point had to wait for a voting machine to become available.

 

“It’s more of a normal year. We’ll have an average turnout. Nothing spectacular,” Fettinger said.

 

Sacha Gee Burns, a poll worker at Crossroads Baptist Church in Wanatah, said several people were waiting to vote before the doors opened at 6 a.m. She also described the number of voters coming in ever since as steady.

 

“It’s been going well,” Burns said.

 

In Long Beach, poll worker Martha Maust said about 50 people cast their votes by 7:30 a.m.

 

“It’s been very steady,” Maust said.

 

According to La Porte County Clerk Heather Stevens, around 10,000 people in La Porte County voted early this year.

 

Close to 80 percent of those early votes were made on machines set up in La Porte, Michigan City, Coolspring Township, and Wanatah. In 2020, more than 20,000 people in La Porte County voted early.

 

Stevens said turnout is always higher when elections include candidates running for president.