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Erie County officials ratify emergency polling-location changes; officials urge voters to use drop boxes
Summary
At an Erie County meeting, officials ratified emergency polling-location moves — including a transfer from Harrington Hall to Jerome Pavilion at Camp Sherwin and the move of Edison Elementary polling to a new building — and advised voters to use courthouse drop boxes amid reported mail delays.
At a meeting of Erie County officials, members unanimously ratified emergency changes to several polling locations and urged voters to use the courthouse drop box for mail ballots after reports of postal delays.
An elections staff member said the county had posted notices, updated the elections GIS map and website, and placed signage at both the former and new polling sites. “We're at the former Edison School, 1921 East Lake Road,” the staff member said, noting the polling place for Edison Elementary will move to the new building at 1916 East 7th Street because the old school is being demolished. The staff member also said Gerard Township District 1’s polling location at Camp Sherwin will move from Harrington Hall to Jerome Pavilion after structural collapse made the previous building unsafe.
The staff member introduced a motion “to ratify the polling location changes that the department has had to make in the past week.” According to the meeting record, the motion was identified in the transcript as moved by Missus Sharman and seconded by Mister Works. A roll-call vote followed; the clerk asked members by name and the recorded responses in the transcript were all affirmative. The motion carried.
A committee member advised voters to avoid relying on postal delivery for mail ballots and to use the courthouse drop box instead, saying, “I have gotten reports. I’ve seen some of them where the mails [are] as much as 30 days late.” Meeting staff confirmed there is an indoor drop box in Room 116 and said the county placed temporary signage to guide voters to the new locations.
The meeting record lists the specific location details discussed by elections staff: the former Edison Elementary polling site at 1921 East Lake Road, the new Edison building at 1916 East 7th Street, and the Camp Sherwin polling move to Jerome Pavilion at 8600 West North Road, Lake City (same 911 address, pavilion nearer the entrance). The action taken was a ratification of emergency location changes; no further formal actions or budget items were recorded in the transcript.
The clerk’s roll call in the transcript recorded named members responding in the affirmative (recorded names in the meeting transcript include Copeland; Missus Sharvin; Mister Escottella; Mister Myers; Mister Bale; Mister Drexel). The meeting closed after brief informal remarks about early in-person voting and logistics.
Next steps: elections staff said the county’s elections webpage and GIS map have been updated and that signage would remain at both former and new locations to guide voters. The transcript did not record a specific follow-up timeline beyond those updates.
