The Marion County Clerk's office says nearly 27,000 people cast their votes in person as of Monday evening.

The five new sites are the result of a settled lawsuit filed against the county's election board.

Attorney General Curtis Hill's motion to withdraw a settlement agreement to create early voting centers was met with criticism from Secretary of State Connie Lawson, who called Hill's filing "reckless."

The creation of new early voting sites requires a unanimous vote from the Election Board. In his motion Attorney General Hill says that vote never happened.

The Marion County Election Board has approved six additional early voting sites for this year's General Election.

Common Cause Indiana and two branches of the NAACP filed a federal lawsuit against the board last summer.