Carroll County is seeing a robust turnout for early voting in this year’s presidential election. According to the Maryland State Board of Elections, 16,032 (12.4%) of the county’s 129,250 registered voters cast ballots during the first four days of early voting.
That percentage beats the state average of 10.5% of eligible voters casting a ballot as of the end of the day Sunday.
Early voting began Oct. 24 and continues through Thursday.
“Early voting is going smoothly,” Erin Perrone, director of the Carroll County Board of Elections, said. “We are on day five and have three more days to go. Turnout is definitely higher than this year’s primary held in May.”
In May’s primary election just 4,984 voters in Carroll County cast a ballot during early voting.
Perrone said the Westminster Senior Center has been the busiest of the three early voting sites, with South Carroll Senior Center second, and Coppermine Pantherplex the least busy.
“However, all three are busier than they were in May’s primary election,” she said.
On the first day of early voting, 2,329 voters showed up at the Westminster Senior Center, as 2,009 voted at the South Carroll Senior Center and 1,216 cast ballots at the Coppermine Pantherplex in Hampstead.
Through Sunday, a total of 7,297 voted at Westminster; 5,484 voted at South Carroll; and 3,251 voted at the Coppermine Pantherplex.
Early voting locations in the county are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day through Thursday, at:
- Westminster Senior Center, 125 Stoner Ave., Westminster
- South Carroll Senior Center, 5928 Mineral Hill Road, Sykesville
- Coppermine PantherPlex, 1400 Panther Drive, Hampstead
There are 130,325 registered voters in Carroll County as of September, according to the Board of Elections. Of those registered, 33,301 are Democrats, 64,209 are Republicans and 30,503 are unaffiliated. The Libertarian Party has 845 voters, the No Label Movement has 136, the Green Party has 132 and 1,199 are considered “other.”
According to the state Board of Elections, about 15% of registered Republicans (9,584) in Carroll had voted through Sunday at early voting locations, while 11.25% of registered Democrats (3,722) have voted early.
Statewide, 440,453 voters (10.48%) of the 4,204,572 eligible registered voters had cast ballots through Sunday via early voting.
Sample ballots for the Nov. 5 general election, can be viewed at elections.carrollcountymd.gov/sampleBallot.aspx.
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