South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)

Some voting sites have been recently moved for Tuesday’s election

- By Lisa J. Huriash Lisa J. Huriash can be reached at lhuriash@ sunsentine­l.com. Follow on Twitter @LisaHurias­h

When you head to the polls Tuesday, make sure you’re going to the right place.

Elections officials have made dozens of changes to voting locales in Broward since the August primary. The Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections said no polling places have been removed or added.

Among the Broward voters with a new place is Barbra Nightingal­e, of Hollywood.

When the elections office mailed out giant voter informatio­n cards over the summer, she got notice her polling place was being moved from an elementary school across the street from her home to another school.

When the elections office sent out new walletsize­d voting cards a month later, she got moved again to “some church, a different place, I never heard of it,” and voted there in the primaries. After the August election came another card in time for Tuesday’s election, this time moved back to the reassigned elementary school.

“I thought it was odd I got three different cards with three different places,” she said. “I thought it was just to confuse us. We just bantered at dinner, ‘Who else has been jerked around like this?’ ”

But Broward Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott said he’s trying to find that sweet spot to accommodat­e voters. His office has been adjusting precincts, such as previously changing polling locations that were tucked away behind gates.

Ivan Castro, elections spokesman, said 10 precincts have been added to the roster after the August election, bringing the total to 355 precincts in 276 voting locations. Of those, 33 precincts were moved to a different location since August. There were 262 voting locations in August.

Scott said he realizes there can be confusion, so there will also be about a dozen voter informatio­n booths located throughout the county “in places we expect people to show up because they were previously early voting sites” and direct them to where they need to go vote, he said.

If voters are unsure of their election day polling site, Broward voters can check the supervisor’s website browardvot­es.gov then click on Election Day Precincts.

Scott said more changes are coming for future elections, likely to be announced in the spring or summer.

After this election, there will be a “more in-depth review,” he said, of what changes are needed. He said of the feedback: “Plenty of folks are critical. Some of it’s valid, some of it isn’t.”

But he vowed to only add precincts, not remove any of the sites.

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