County commissioners will vote at their Wednesday meeting on changing four polling places in the county.

Clearfield Township and Petrolia and Bruin boroughs must be changed for various reasons, but Saxonburg is requesting a change.

Mary Papick, Saxonburg manager, said Monday that the borough's polling place has been the borough building on West Main Street for many years.

Borough council now wants to change the polling place to Cooper Hall at Roebling Park.

Papick explained that Cooper Hall would provide additional parking, more room to accommodate walkers and wheelchairs, a space more amenable to the new voting system and would not impede citizens and others coming to the borough building for official business.

Papick said Saxonburg has 979 registered voters.

She hopes the change can take place before the primary and general presidential elections as turnout is expected to be higher than the 367 voters who turned out for last year's municipal election.

Shari Brewer said changing a polling place is usually the result of some condition that makes a former location no longer feasible, but Wednesday's vote will include Saxonburg, which asked to be moved.

“Actually, it would be a benefit for the people in Saxonburg,” Brewer said of the potential change to Cooper Hall.

She said the commissioners will vote on the four polling place changes as they are also the board of elections.

Brewer said Petrolia and Bruin are changing because they have new, larger borough buildings with access for the disabled.

As for Clearfield Township, she said officials at a Catholic church where voters previously cast their ballots informed the elections bureau they no longer want to serve as a polling place.

Brewer said voters can share their thoughts on the changes during the public comment section at the beginning of the 10 a.m. commissioners meeting on the fifth floor of the county government building.