Arlington is likely to provide a number of satellite centers for early voting in the 2021 general election â but how many there will be, and where they will be located, remain open questions.
âEarly voting is here to stay,â predicted county elections chief Gretchen Reinemeyer, briefing Electoral Board members during a Dec. 16 meeting.
And while 2020 may prove an aberration because of public-health conditions, the data certainly bear out that likelihood. Of just over 131,000 Arlington residents casting ballots, 46 percent voted early at in-person sites, 37 percent cast ballots by mail and only 17 percent voted at their regular polling places on Nov. 3.
Anticipating a flood of early voters for the 2020 general election, Arlington officials set up four early-voting satellite centers, located at the Langston-Brown, Madison, Aurora Hills and Walter Reed community centers. They were open from Oct. 17-31 to augment the traditional in-person-absentee voting location in the