Primary election is today | ForsythNews.com

Nearly 6,200 voters in Forsyth County cast a ballot ahead of today’s primary election.

Elections Supervisor Barbara Luth said with the number of early and advance voting ballots, she’s expecting as high as a 30 percent turnout for the election.

But with precinct changes that took effect earlier in the year, Luth said residents should make sure before voting that they are going to the right place. Precinct changes dropped the total number of voting locations from 25 to 16. The elections office sent information to those with new precincts, but Luth said if voters “are unsure, they should check before they go to vote.”

If someone shows up at the wrong precinct, Luth said they should try to make it to their actual voting location.

“They’ll have the option of voting a provisional ballot. We don’t turn anyone away,” she said. “But there’s a possibility if they’re voting in the wrong precinct, they won’t have all of their district candidates to vote for, so it would be best for them to be at their own precinct.”

The county will have about 165 voting machines and 150 poll workers at the precincts so Luth said even the larger locations shouldn’t have much of a wait.

via Primary election is today.