Curbside absentee voting wraps up in Buchanan County

Curbside voting is officially in the rearview mirror in buchanan county for this election... the last group of voters taking advantage of casting ballots from the comfort and safety of their cars -- started lining up at our lady of guadalupe church at 2 o'clock for the 3 p.m.

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Election workers spent the week alternating between the church and the remington nature centerto get absentee voters processed ahead of next tuesday.

Drivers by the thousands showed up to take advantage of the new voting method through the week... (mary baack-garvey, buch co.

Clerk: i think people are loving this.

I mean it's been an experience.

You know we learned early how busy it would be.

Now we are ready on the last day of course but it's been an amazing turnout.

I bet we've had over 600 voters here today.

We still have time left.

I think that's going to alleviate a lot of election pressure on election day.) before the curbside voting started this week -- the clerk's office had already received more than 5-thousand ballots.

That's already 10 percent of the total 2016 turnout.

In-person absentee voting is still available friday, saturday and monday.

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