(La Porte County, IN) - Two vote center locations in La Porte County were neck and neck this morning for the highest number of votes cast on Election Day today.  The computerized voting system in La Porte County keeps live tallies on voter turnout.

 

La Porte County Clerk Heather Stevens said there were 5,582 voters casting ballots by 9 a.m. at the 37 vote center locations throughout the county. That number was up by 160 in just six minutes.

 

By 9 a.m., she said the highest number of voters was 289 at Agape Christian Church at 1601 I Street in La Porte.  The Center Township Volunteer Fire Department on Johnson Road trailed by just one voter.

 

Other voter turnout numbers this morning in La Porte included 209 at Cummings Lodge and 200 at the Civic Auditorium.

 

There were 250 ballots cast at the vote center in Westville and 246 at the Kankakee Township Volunteer Fire Department in Rolling Prairie.

 

By 9 a.m., voter turnout countywide stood at 36.2 percent, which included the 27 percent turnout for early voting that ended at 12 p.m. Monday.

 

The number of voters this morning in Michigan City stood at 1,774 as of 9:40 a.m.