(La Porte County, IN) - Despite heavy early voting, a lot of people are turning out to cast ballots on this Election Day.

 

By 7:30 a.m., over 170 people had voted this morning at the Center Township Volunteer Fire Department on Johnson Road, said poll worker Cathy Reese.  She said there had been a steady stream of voters there since the doors opened at 6 a.m.

 

“It is very, very busy,” she said.

 

She said the wait to vote was just a few minutes, though, since there were four judges to help get people through the process faster along with eight voting machines.

 

There were more than a dozen votes cast within the first 15 minutes since the vote center doors opened at Hanna United Methodist Church, said poll worker Sacha Gee Burns.  Burns said among the voters was a police officer who was on his way home after working the late shift.

 

“It seems like a lot of people want to get out there and go ahead and vote,” she said.

 

The polls close at 6 p.m.

 

About 27 percent of all registered voters in La Porte County voted during the early voting period, which ended at 12 p.m. on Monday.