{"id":27263,"date":"2025-09-09T02:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/?p=27263"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:24:23","slug":"vote-center-deal-official-after-election-board-votes-unanimously-in-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/vote-center-deal-official-after-election-board-votes-unanimously-in-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Center Deal Official After Election Board Votes Unanimously in Favor"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"27263\" class=\"elementor elementor-27263\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1026cd4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1026cd4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-93ecfb2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"93ecfb2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da44f4b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"da44f4b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><h2 style=\"font-style: normal\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 40px;font-weight: 400\">Vote Center Deal Official After Election Board Votes Unanimously in Favor<\/span><\/font><span style=\"color: var(--ast-global-color-2);font-size: 2.625rem;font-style: inherit\"><\/span><\/h2><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a25b84 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6a25b84\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88ba847 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"88ba847\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><u>9.9.2025 \/ News \/ Rick Yencer<\/u><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ccd86bc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ccd86bc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa4ec52 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fa4ec52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;\">MUNCIE, Ind. \u2014<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0It took ten minutes to approve vote centers in Delaware County on Monday, after more than twenty years of debate.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;\">Republicans worked with Democrats to approve the plan engineered by County Clerk Rick Spangler, who has been consolidating voting place in recent years. Spangler said the plan had been a long time coming, as Republican Pete Drumm and Democrat Dan Gibson gave their support as members of the county election board to now have 26 places to vote in future elections.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">Linda Hanson, leader of the Muncie\/Delaware County&#8217;s chapter of the League of Women Voters, appreciated the change and has advocated for vote centers long before.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;\">Vote centers allow for any voter to vote in any of the dozens of locations, regardless of their residence. The county added two new voting places: Glad Tidings Church, 3001 S. Burlington, and Daleville Station, 14010 W. Daleville.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">Early voting can be done now at Delaware County Fairgrounds, besides the Delaware County Building.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">More than two thirds of Indiana&#8217;s 92 counties have voting centers and Indiana is looking to require the system for all counties.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; text-align: var(--text-align);\">The state must approve the voting centers along with county commissioners also approving those places before the midterm election in 2026.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7748d7a e-con-full e-flex e-con 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