Record numbers make way to polls in Young County

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More than half of Young County’s voters chose to mark their General Election ballots early, setting records while they did so.

According to county elections administrator Lauren Sullivan, 5,586 people went to the polls in person during the early voting period, which began Oct. 24 and wrapped up Friday. In Young County there are 11,756 registered voters which is up around 450 voters from the 2012 election.

Sullivan said she’d received 700 mail-in ballots as of Monday, meaning a total of 53.47 percent of registered voters had cast ballots ahead of yesterday’s election.

She described early voting totals as “record-shattering.”

There were only 5,470 Young County voters eligible to cast votes when the county’s five polling locations opened at 7 a.m. today.

At 7 a.m., voters began showing up to the five polling sites across Young County, with most saying they always go to the polls on election day.

Harold Barnhart, who says he has “been a resident of Graham off and on for about 60 years,” votes every year, but never early. “I always get out and vote on election day,” Barnhart said.

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