Voters at Bloomington High School South should now enter at the back entrance of the school, county clerk Nicole Browne wrote in an email.
Election inspector Kurt Seiffert said the polling site had been in the school’s atrium on the other side of the building for at least 16 years. It changed locations in 2022. It’s now in the White Auxiliary Gym on the east side of the building.
"So many of our voters come up every four years, some every two years, and so many of those voters got confused,” Seiffert said. “The ones who showed up in '22, most of them remembered that they were voting in the gym. But the voters who haven't showed up since 2020 to vote, they're coming back to the atrium and they're not seeing the appropriate signage there to tell them to go all the way around to the other side of the building."
He said they requested additional signs last night. Browne wrote over email the clerk’s office was out of signs.
By 12:30 p.m., the site had just welcomed just under 700 voters, Seiffert said. As of noon, turnout in Monroe County as a whole was 14,659, Browne wrote. Browne wrote the youngest voter she could find who’s cast a ballot turned 18 in September, and the oldest was 89 years old.
