ELECTION GUIDE: Important dates and deadlines

Know before you go.

Thursday, Oct. 6

10 a.m. to noon: Required public test of voting machines in the Salmon Room, County Office Building, 201 Locust Lane (this is a change from the originally posted location of the exhibit building at the Brown County Fairgrounds). The public and poll workers are invited to try the new machines to see how they work.

Tuesday, Oct. 11

4 p.m.: Deadline to fix a problem with your voter registration or to transfer it to your current address. Type your name, birth date and county at indianavoters.in.gov. If you don’t find yourself on it and you think you should be or if your address is wrong, contact the county clerk’s office at 812-988-5510.

Midnight: Deadline to register to vote. Visit indianavoters.in.gov.

Wednesday, Oct. 12

Note: In-person absentee voting starts in the Salmon Room at the County Office Building, 201 Locust Lane, open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. until Nov. 7.

Thursday, Oct. 20

Note: First day that someone can ask to have the traveling board help them vote if they are disabled or confined. This opportunity is open through May 2. Call the county clerk’s office at 812-988-5510 to ask how to schedule this option.

Friday, Oct. 21

Noon: Deadline for candidates to file pre-primary campaign finance reports.

Thursday, Oct. 27

Midnight: Deadline to receive an application to vote absentee by mail. Applications can be submitted to the clerk in person or by mail, fax or email.

Saturday, Oct. 29

9 a.m. to 2 p.m.: In-person absentee voting in the Salmon Room at the County Office Building, 201 Locust Lane.

Thursday, Nov. 3

6 p.m.: Poll worker training. Location to be announced.

Friday, Nov. 4

6 p.m.: Poll worker training. Location to be announced.

Saturday, Nov. 5

9 a.m. to 2 p.m.: In-person absentee voting in the Salmon Room at the County Office Building, 201 Locust Lane.

Monday, Nov. 7

8 a.m. to noon: Last day of in-person absentee voting in the Salmon Room at the County Office Building, 201 Locust Lane.

Monday to Friday, Oct. 13 to Nov. 7

8 a.m. to 4 p.m.: In-person absentee voting open in the Salmon Room at the County Office Building, 201 Locust Lane.

Tuesday, Nov. 8

ELECTION DAY

6 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Polls open in Brown County. You must visit the polling place in the precinct in which you live to vote.

6 p.m.: Absentee ballots by mail are due to the Absentee Voter Board at P.O. Box 85 Nashville, Indiana 47448. These can be hand-delivered if you wait too long to get it into the mail. If the board receives your mail-in ballot after 6 p.m., it might not be counted. Ballots that are not mailed can also be hand-delivered to the Absentee Voter Board at the Salmon Room in the County Office Building by 6 p.m. Election Day.

Note: First day the county clerk can receive mail-in absentee ballot applications for the general election.