By Logan Wells, News Director | Logan@kymnradio.net
Pictures from the City Hall Early Voting Place
With just a few days until the election, the City of Northfield is offering special early voting hours. Any resident of Rice County and the Northfield portion in Dakota County can vote early at the Northfield City Hall.
This weekend, early voting hours are 9am to 3pm on both Saturday and Sunday and 7:30am to 5pm on Monday.
The polling place is located on the second floor of city hall in the training room, when you walk in signs will direct you where to go. On Tuesday, regular polling locations will be open around Northfield, will have more information in Monday’s election explainer about registering to vote at the polls, where to go to vote, and other last information before the election.
Northfield City Clerk Lynette Peterson explained that the early voting process is secure with each ballot being placed in a secure envelope and not being opened until election night. She noted that the counting happens at the polling locations and the comes to city hall:
“We have a checklist and basically the judges will take the ballots out of the machine, start counting those and they look at the poll pads and match the signatures to the number of ballots to the number on the voting machine. And then there’s a summary statement that they fill out and we back. And end up bringing it down to City Hall and then it eventually goes over to the county county” – Northfield City Clerk Lynette Peterson on the KYMN Morning Show
Peterson noted that the results take usually a few hours to fully count depending on the number of people that voted, before they are sent to Rice County and then on to the Minnesota Secretary of State who reports the results on their website.
