EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Monday brought the final day of early voting in Indiana.
It has been a big month for early voting as we approach Election Day.
Vanderburgh County Clerk Marsha Barnhart says they’ve already received 40,000 ballots just from early voting and mail-in ballots.
Early voting officially ended at noon Monday but Barnhart says the line at Central Library was so long that the physical polling location stayed open, making sure those in line before 12 were able to cast their ballot.
Barnhart says it’s been “controlled chaos” already, noting problems with some mail-in ballots that have not been returned to Vanderburgh County.
“We had some that we had mailed out in mid-September that were still not back mid-October and I processed one the other day that was mailed out in mid-September and it was postmarked in Louisville, Kentucky on October 28. So there’s a big problem with that,” says Barnhart. “When we still have several hundred of those out so and we never had that many out.”