
- PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE
- Voters waited outside of the Marketplace Mall polling site for approximately an hour to cast in person ballots Monday afternoon.
Early voting started Saturday and by the end of the day Tuesday, 44,683 voters had cast their ballots at early voting sites, with 14,018 of them voting on Tuesday alone, according to the county Board of Elections. By that point the board had also received 71,017 absentee ballots.
Monroe County has 481,448 registered voters and the end of day Tuesday numbers represented a 24 percent turnout.
“Voters continue to amaze and impress us with their level of participation and enthusiasm during early voting,” Democratic Elections Commissioner Jackie Ortiz said in a statement. “We continue to encourage all voters to take advantage of the convenience early voting provides to all voters, especially now during this pandemic.”
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Elections officials said more than 19,000 ballots were cast early in Monroe County over the weekend, smashing the previous record.
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Early voting continues through Nov. 1. Registered voters in Monroe County can cast their ballots at any of the twelve early voting sites in the county monroecounty.gov/elections-earlyvoting.
Voters can also drop absentee ballots off at the early voting sites and at the Board of Elections office at 39 West Main Street.
Jeremy Moule is CITY's news editor. He can be reached at jmoule@rochester-citynews.com.