Election board pulls Meadows Shopping Center as an early vote center, opens an Election Day-only replacement at Woodrow Wilson
How we attribute this: speaker_13/21/73/75 → Leanna Moore, Vigo County Clerk's Office — merged diarization labels of one continuous presenter who walks the board through the vote-center-plan amendment resolution [t=45-163] and fields its follow-up questions on the Woodrow Wilson site [t=365-406]. Tied to the name by direct address: "And Leanna, do we have something in writing signed by the school corporation..." [t=468], answered immediately by the same voice thread, "Not as of yet. I told them..." [t=475]. No self-identification on these specific labels, so graded `probable`, not `confirmed`, per the meeting's speaker roster. This note attributes to her only plain procedural/factual statements about the resolution, never a vote or a characterization of a third party.
Who it touches
- Meadows Shopping Center
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School
Tracked in the archive
Leanna Moore of the Vigo County Clerk's Office told the election board that Meadows Shopping Center, which had been planned as a seven-day early voting site opening October 27, had become unusable because repeated attempts to reach the property went unanswered.
The board replaced it with a new Election Day-only vote center at Woodrow Wilson Middle School, directly across the street, with room for the same number of voting machines Meadows would have had — but the new site will not offer the early-voting days Meadows was scheduled to provide.
A board member said the Clerk's Office's attempts to contact Meadows drew no response, citing media reports of unpaid utilities and uncollected trash there and noting the property is in bankruptcy; in this year's primary, Meadows was one of the county's busiest sites, drawing 1,191 early voters and 1,458 more on Election Day.
Sources
- Vote-center plan background0:01:21 (1 minute 21 seconds)
- Woodrow Wilson replacement announced0:02:13 (2 minutes 13 seconds)
- Clerk's office unable to reach Meadows0:03:32 (3 minutes 32 seconds)
- Meadows in bankruptcy0:04:52 (4 minutes 52 seconds)
- 2026 primary turnout at Meadows0:05:03 (5 minutes 3 seconds)
- Machine capacity at Woodrow Wilson0:06:05 (6 minutes 5 seconds)
- Resolution 2026-04 passed unanimously by voice vote0:07:28 (7 minutes 28 seconds)
Outcome
Approved Resolution 2026-04, amending the vote center plan, on a voice vote; the chair said the motion passed unanimously
The board approved Resolution 2026-04, amending the vote center plan (the county's official list of approved voting sites), on a voice vote. The chair said the motion passed unanimously.
This summary was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by an editor against the recording and documents linked above. Nothing publishes without a resolvable source.