Absentee Voting Now Open for General Election

Published: October 8, 2014
By: Anita Goodan, WKVI

Voters can now vote absentee in a county clerk’s office for the November General Election.

In Starke County, in-office absentee voting will be Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. CT in the second floor meeting room in the courthouse from now until Oct. 31. The same hours will apply for Saturday, Oct. 25 and Saturday, Nov. 1.

Pulaski County absentee voting hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET in the Pulaski County Courthouse from now until Oct. 31. Two Saturdays have been set aside for absentee voting: Oct. 25 and Nov. 1 from 8 a.m. to noon ET.

Absentee voting in Marshall County will be available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. until Friday, Oct. 31. The clerk’s office will be open on Saturday, Oct. 25 and Saturday, Nov. 1 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. ET.

The last opportunity to vote absentee in all counties is Monday, Nov. 3 from 8 a.m. to noon local time.

If you plan on voting absentee, you must have a photo I.D. In most cases, an Indiana Driver’s License, Indiana photo I.D. card, U.S. Passport, or Military I.D. may be used when verifying I.D. before casting a ballot.

The absentee voting window opened yesterday. The Starke County Clerk’s office had 23 in-office voters while Pulaski County officials reported 25 absentee voters. Marshall County officials collected over 40 absentee ballots on Tuesday.