[Baltimore Sun] Early voting begins Thursday in Carroll County. Here’s what you need to know
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Early voting for the Nov. 5 presidential election starts Thursday in Carroll County, and continues through Oct. 31.
Early voting locations in the county will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day, and include:
Westminster Senior Center, 125 Stoner Ave., Westminster
South Carroll Senior Center, 5928 Mineral Hill Road, Sykesville
Coppermine PantherPlex, 1400 Panther Drive, Hampstead
Erin Perrone, director of the Carroll County Board of Elections, said she wanted to remind voters that the county uses paper ballots that are marked with a pen then inserted into a machine to be scanned and counted.
“There will be two scanning units at each early voting center and five ballot-marking devices at each,” she stated in an email.
There are 130,325 registered voters in Carroll County as of September, according to the Board of Elections. Of those registered, there are 33,301 Democrats, 64,209 Republicans and 30,503 unaffiliated voters. The Libertarian Party has 845 voters, the No Label Movement has 136, the Green Party has 132 and 1,199 are considered “other.”
Mail-in ballot drop boxes will be available for voters until 8 p.m., Nov. 5, according to the Board of Elections. The ballot drop boxes are under surveillance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
No one has access to the drop-off boxes except for election officials, and ballots are picked up from the boxes every day.
Drop boxes are located at the following sites in Carroll:
Carroll County Board of Elections, 300 S. Center St., Westminster
Mount Airy Senior Center, 703 Ridge Ave., Mount Airy
Taneytown Senior Center, 220 Roberts Mill Road, Taneytown
Coppermine Pantherplex
South Carroll Senior Center
Westminster Senior Center
Early voting in May’s primary election went smoothly, Perrone said, with 4,984 of the 129,485 currently registered voters casting a ballot.
For a closer look at the candidates running in the Nov. 5 general election, sample ballots can be viewed at elections.carrollcountymd.gov/sampleBallot.aspx.
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