No Early Voting on Nov. 2 — the One-Day Gap to Know About

Here's a scheduling detail worth knowing before you make your voting plan: there is no early voting on Monday, November 2.

Early voting in Brookfield runs October 19 through November 1 in Meeting Room 133 at Town Hall, 100 Pocono Road — 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily, with extended hours of 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27 and Thursday, October 29. Then it stops for a day. Election Day itself is Tuesday, November 3, with polls open 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. — at your assigned polling place, which the town says to confirm through the state's voter lookup.

The gap matters because it's the kind of thing people get wrong. If your plan was to vote early "sometime before Election Day," Monday the 2nd feels like a natural last chance — but the machines won't be running that day. Your real last chance for early voting is Sunday, November 1.

Absentee ballots are a separate track: they're available at the Town Clerk's office October 2 through November 2, and they must be returned by 8:00 p.m. on November 3 to count.

Two related notes as the calendar tightens: Brookfield's sample ballot isn't on the Secretary of the State's town-ballots page yet, and official Election Day polling locations haven't been published for the general election — the state's polling-place lookup will show you yours.