Despite record turnout, early voting in Allen and Noble counties goes smoothly

Early voting turnout in 2020 was almost completely opposite in 2016, with nearly 40% of registered voters in both Allen and Noble counties voting early.

Despite the large early turnout, voting has gone smoothly so far.

Hunter petroviak.thanks for joining us.the final early votes were cast today here in indiana as the presidential election prepares for the final day.

Fox 55's caleb saylor is live in fort wayne recapping how early voting went for two local counties and what voters should expect for tomorrow.

Caleb?

Live in: people have come out in record numbers both here in allen county and in noble county to cast their vote before election day, and while the process has gone smoothly during early voting, those casting their votes tomorrow should be prepared.

Take pkgnearly 40% of allen county voters and noble county voters have already made their choices for elected offices.

Allen county election board director beth dlug says it was a complete 180 from 2016 "in 2016, it was pretty much the opposite.

We had one hundred thousand people, over one hundred thousand people that voted in person on election day and somewhere around forty thousand that voted early."

Despite the large turnouts and long wait times, noble county deputy clerk deb shultz says early voting went smoothly.

"we had some lines on saturday in kendallville, i was told, but here at the courthouse, i don't think anybody really waited in line much more than fifteen, twenty minutes."only 200 absentee ballots haven't been returned in noble county and out of the 35,000 allen county mail-in voters, all but 2000 have been returned.

Dlug there's no widespread concerns of rejection "we do have less than 100 ballots that our board is looking at to see if they can approve those ballots, right now, we have rejected very few of the absentee ballots."dlug says they've had no problems with machines or getting people through the lines since they used the same techniques used in the primaryso since sixty percent of registered voters haven't voted and if all of them do...spt: deb shultz, deputy clerk, noble county?

"i guess to prepare, there could always be a line, you know?"

Live out: mail in ballots in allen county need to be returned here to the election board office at the coliseum by noon tomorrow, and dlug says tomorrow you have to vote at your assigned polling location, if you need to look up your polling location, you can head to this story on our website, w-f-f-t dot com.