The Hamilton County Election Commission did the right thing by turning down a request from the Chattanooga City Council to add two more early voting sites for the March 7 city election.
But, once the full Election Commission is able to study the situation without the mechanics of an election bearing down on its members, it may want to consider, if feasible, at least one more satellite early voting site.
Currently, the sites are located essentially downtown (at the Election Commission, off Amnicola Highway), the north end of the city (North River Civic Center) and the east end of the city (Brainerd Youth and Family Development Center).
A satellite site at the South Chattanooga Youth and Family Development Center, as City Councilman Chris Anderson has suggested, would essentially be in the south end of the city.
If the number of registered voters are taken into account, a fifth one should probably be at the far east end of the city limits in East Brainerd or Ooltewah.