Twenty percent of Putnam’s electorate took part in early voting

CARMEL – Nine days of early voting con­cluded Sunday with the Board of Elections reporting 14,024 residents of Putnam partaking in the process. 

Commissioner Cathy Croft said of the 73,000 vot­ers eligible to cast ballots on Tuesday, some 20 percent visited either the Board of Elections headquar­ters in Carmel or the American Legion Hall in Cold Spring to cast ballots early.

The numbers were more than three times higher than last year’s elec­tion when 4,712 cast ballots early but paled in the 2024 Presidential election when 24,210 residents cast their ballots early.