VOTE 2024

Return Day puts Sussex County history on parade

By Glenn Rolfe
Posted 10/24/24

Sussex County’s Return Day, an election season staple every even year, is lined up again for Nov. 7 in Georgetown.

The postvoting tradition, which reportedly launched in 1812, has only been derailed twice — by the pandemic in 2020 and by the country’s involvement in World War II during the 1940s.

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