About 2,000 voters in the Jett precinct will be moved to Immanuel Baptist Church, 6949 U.S. 61 South, for the Aug. 23 primary runoff and the Nov. 8 general election — the second move in three months.

In June, the precinct’s polling place moved to No. 5 Fire Station, at Vicksburg Municipal Airport, from Carpenters Union Hall when the union’s facility became unavailable due to reorganization.

Temperatures hit 100 degrees in Vicksburg when voters went to the polls Aug. 2, according to the National Weather Service. Huge box fans blew a tepid breeze through the fire station’s bays where people voted. Several poll workers threatened to walk off the job for the runoff election if the site wasn’t changed, District 4 Supervisor Bill Lauderdale said.

“They were dying in there,” he said, adding the church’s board of deacons has OK’d the move. “I got complaints from everybody. It was unbearable in that place.”

The $1.3 million fire station was financed by money the city received from a Katrina-related disaster recovery grant. Use of an air-conditioned foyer to house some of the eight voting machines allocated to the station was said to be too expensive, prompting the move next door to the church, Lauderdale said.

Supervisors expect to notify the Department of Justice of the pending site change.

Jett has retained its name with the department’s list of precincts because the county has not followed through on an official name change. The school merged with fellow Warren County schools Redwood and Culkin in 1965 to create Warren Central High School.