Public meetings to discuss voting center option
The Dubois County Election Board will hold a series of public meetings to take public input about the proposed voting centers.
The first meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Dubois Middle School
The voting centers are a trend occurring throughout the United States. Indiana currently has at least 12 counties that have converted to the new process and several more counties exploring the option.
If the plan goes through, seven voting centers would replace the many polling locations the county typically operates during an election.
The move looks to relieve many logistic issues with having about 24 polling locations in the county during elections. Problems associated with these many locations arise when residents go to the wrong location to vote. In past elections cycles, an election worker would have to find out the individual’s address and then call the other polling location to determine if the individual was registered to vote at that location.
If the county creates the seven voting centers, residents will be able to vote at any of the seven locations in the county. Currently the plan includes creating voting centers at the Huntingburg Event Center, the Ferdinand Community Center, and two unnamed locations in Jasper, Dubois, Holland, and Schnellville.
Three other meetings are scheduled to occur in January. All are scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
They are:
- Tuesday, Jan. 21, at Jasper High School
- Thursday, Jan. 23, at Southridge High School in Huntingburg.
- Tuesday, Jan. 28, at Forest Park Junior-Senior High School in Ferdinand.
The new voting centers would be in place before the primary election in May.
