Hancock County Voting Centers

County Clerk of Courts, Marcia Moore with Kiwanian and Election Board member, Bob Bogiggian.


County Clerk, Marcia Moore discussed the merits of using a Voting Center system over the traditional precinct voting.  The system has been proposed for implementation in the 2014 Primary election. 

Since Moore was elected Clerk the number of voters and precincts has increased.  The number of precincts increased from 38 to an expected 59 for next years election.  Using the traditional method of voting each precinct would have a set of election day poll workers and a unique or shared polling place.  Using the voting center system only 12 election sites will be in operation in the county.

This provides for potential savings :

• Payroll expense from fewer poll workers
• Rental savings from less building rental
•  Printing savings from use of electronic poll books

23% of the county voters cast their ballot in early voting in the most recent election.  Multiple locations will be available to cast their votes prior to election rather than only the courthouse.
 For more information see  http://www.hancockcoingov.org/  , click clerk, then click elections, then click voting centers.