The Butler County Bureau of Elections is adding seven new voting precincts effective for the upcoming Nov. 7 general election.

For voters, this means making sure you’re informed if you chose to vote at the polls this November. The place that you’ve gone to to vote for years may no longer be your polling station.

According to a letter issued Thursday by Butler County Bureau of Elections director Chantell McCurdy, the board of elections will notify all voters in the following townships: Adams, Connoquenessing, Cranberry, Jackson and Middlesex.

The changes are substantial. In Cranberry, Precincts West 7 and West 8 are new. Jackson, Connoquenessing and Middlesex each have a new precinct. In Adams, Precincts 4 and 5 are newly created.

Other locations have moved within these townships.

A notice will go out to voters “regardless of whether their precinct was affected by the creation of the new voting precincts.”

This will be done by mail and will consist of about 50,000 letters.

“Those voters that will be moving to a new polling location will also receive a new voter ID card,” McCurdy said in the Thursday notice.

The letters are expected to be mailed beginning Sept. 5.

A complete list of these location changes were included in yesterday’s edition of the Butler Eagle, but the election bureau’s website — butlercountypa.gov/160/Bureau-of-Elections — is another place to find up-to-date information.

Anyone with questions is encouraged to contact the Bureau of Elections Office at 724-284-5308, elections@co.butler.pa.us.

Election Day may seem far off, but don’t wait too long. Make sure you know where you are going to vote as well as who you are voting for. Take a moment now to make a plan.

— TL