The Hamilton County Board of Elections will shut its doors at 824 Broadway downtown Thursday afternoon forever. Five days later, on Tuesday – the day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday – the board will re-open for business in new, more spacious quarters at the Central Parke office complex at 4700 Smith Road in Norwood, on the site of the old General Motors plant. It will be the first time in history Hamilton County's elections board has been located outside of downtown. Election officials said they had no choice but to move – the lease on its 824 Broadway office space expired at the end of the year and the owners of a warehouse in Fairfax where the board stores equipment told the board to move out. The lease on the Broadway building was extended through January to allow the board to finish up the 2016 general election and prepare for the move. Now, all functions of the board of elections will be in a single, one-story building. Hamilton County Democratic Party chairman, Tim Burke
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