BATON ROUGE — The maps for the 19th Judicial District election changed ahead of the October special election to include a bigger demographic; residents say the change did not come with enough time for voters.

Pastor Dale Flowers of New Sunlight Baptist Church said that the maps should have been implemented in next year's election, and he feels rushed to vote.

“I didn’t even know I was voting a month ago, so I had no interest in this," Flowers said. "Now we got to rush to decide which of these candidates we’re going to choose.”

After the changes were made, East Baton Rouge Registrar of Voters Steve Raborn said information was sent out and voters can update their registration.

“We did implement the redistricting of the district court back in July. New voter information cards were mailed

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