Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) — Election day is a little more than a month away, but some people are opting to vote early. Absentee voting started on September 20th and already thousands of ballots have been cast.
Over the past week over 2,200 people have stopped by the Pennington County auditor’s office to get their votes in early.
“I think a lot of people realized that they can come in and absentee vote in person and I think also some of them learned that they can mail in the application. Get their ballot mailed to them so that they don’t have to come down,” Pennington County Auditor Cindy Mohler said.
Currently, over 6,000 ballots have been mailed to people who requested them.
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“It’s wonderful to be able to get my ballot ahead of time, to be able to go out and do the studying. Read the whole thing, do the studying, and there are some really good websites to do some studying to read pros and cons and to be able to fill it out at my leisure,” Rapid City Voter Michelle Rowan said.