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Great Falls Election Office Prepares For Election Day

By Charlie Keegan

Story Created: Nov 1, 2010 at 5:40 PM MDT

Story Updated: Nov 1, 2010 at 6:26 PM MDT

Tomorrow is Election Day and polling centers across the state are preparing for voters.

The Cascade County Election Office was in full swing this afternoon transforming the Exhibition Hall at the ExpoPark into a polling center. Officials expect around 5,000 people to come to the Exhibition Hall to vote. Crews are working on setting up tables, computers and ballot boxes before their busy day tomorrow.

Citizens who are not registered to vote may do so at the Exhibition Hall all day. Judges will be sworn in to count the ballots at the Exhibition Hall. They don't expect the counting to take too long because there are no write-in candidates on the ballots.

Everyone in the Great Falls city limits and Gore Hill fire district votes at the Exhibition Hall. Residents in the outlying communities don't need to come to Great Falls to vote. “If you're a resident out in the Niehart area, Belt, Centerville, Cascade, Ulm, Vaughn, Sun River, Simms, Manchester or Sun Prairie those are the polling locations you have to go to,” Elections Administrator Rina Fontana Moore says.

If you still haven't sent in your absentee ballot, you are required to drop it off at the Exhibition Hall, at the elections office downtown, or at the old Saint Peter and Paul Church on 44th Street before 8 pm. It is too late to mail them in.

Polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm tomorrow.

As a reminder, city offices will be closed tomorrow, but the Community Rec Center, and Natatorium will be open and garbage collection will maintain its regular schedule.

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