Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin has been traveling to Ida impacted areas this week visiting polling sites, registrar offices, clerk of courts, and meeting with local officials to determine if they need to make site changes of voting locations.
“We’re working with them to get through this and be able to pull off the election. That’s why it was so important to delay the election,” said Ardoin.
The October 9th primary was delayed until November 13th and the November 13th election was moved to December 11th. Ardoin said there will be temporary changes for some damaged polling locations, and some areas will have their early voting locations moved.
Ardoin said they made the decision to delay the fall election so those in Ida impacted areas can focus on recovery first and then the election. He said there are important decisions like local propositions, school board members, and constitutional amendments to be decided.
“So, we really felt like it was important to delay so that voters could back to some sort of normalcy and then focus on societal issues and civic duty,” said Ardoin.
For displaced voters who might not be in hometowns to vote, Ardoin said they can either show up for early voting or election days where they are registered and cast a ballot.
“But if you feel like you’re not going to be able to make it back to your home in order to vote in person, then you need to request an absentee ballot through your registrar voters office, so you can do that online,” said Ardoin.
Ardoin said you can receive an absentee ballot for your home location and it will be mailed to your temporary address.
For more information, visit GeauxVote.com, download the GeauxVote App, call your registrar’s office or the Secretary of State’s Office at 225-922-2880.
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