Measure halving early voting period heads to Senate floor

Hoosier voters could see early in-person voting slashed from a month to two weeks under legislation moving to the Indiana Senate’s floor.

Under current law, voters can cast ballots in person for 28 days ahead of elections. After a Monday amendment, Senate Bill 284 would reduce that period to 14 days. It originally would’ve cut the period to just seven days.

Clerks have complained it’s too hard to staff early voting centers for so long, particularly when so few Hoosiers vote during the first half of the period compared to the second half, Author Sen. Gary Byrne, R-Byrnesville, told the Senate’s Elections Committee.

Before the committee’s 6-3 vote, he called his proposal “common-sense” and said voting was easier now than when his ancestors had to drive a horse and buggy miles to vote.



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