Lismore has been out and about early, casting their votes in the Lismore City Council Elections. Voting booths are open until 6pm.

The St Paul's booth on Keen Street saw Steve Krieg, Adam Guise and Jasmine Knight-Smith fronting voters with how-to-vote papers. Not too many were stopping for a chat, instead grabbing the material they wanted, then heading straight inside to cast their vote.

(Current Lismore Mayor Steve Krieg, Labor's Jasmine Knight-Smith and The Greens Adam Guise at St Pauls Memorial Hall this morning)

Steve Krieg said he was quietly optimistic about tonight's result.

"But you can never take anything for granted. I wish every candidate all the very best, and whoever gets on the council, I wish them well for the upcoming four years."

One of the difficulties for all parties, and especially tough for the smaller independent tickets, is covering all the 22 polling booths in the Lismore LGA.

"We've got all booths covered today, which is a monumental effort. Manning them is a big task, and I want to thank all the volunteers who have come out to help. And you know, we've got grand finals in many sporting codes this weekend, and so for people to give up their time and their Saturday to come out and support is really good."

(Steve Krieg casting his vote)

In terms of pre-poll voting during the week, is there any indicators you can take? Are people taking the How To Votes papers?

"A lot of people do know what they're doing. And, you know, elections are always funny times, aren't they? People are either right into it or don't really want to know about it. Until the votes are counted, you don't really know, and the support for myself and my team has been overwhelmingly positive. But, as I said, I don't take anything for granted, and that's why we're out here all day today and every day on pre-poll to meet people and listen to the concerns and listen to the good things as well, so we'll hopefully get a good result, and press on over the next four years to make Lismore the regional centre that we all want it to be."

Lismore Greens lead candidate Adam Guise said he loves election day.

"This is where I began my election back in 2015, running against Thomas George off the back of the coal seam gas campaign. So, being back at St Paul's nearly 10 years later is a fun experience."

"Pre-poll has been great. There's been a good, steady flow of voters. We expect, probably, I don't know, half the voting population might have already done their job, but we had a good, steady flow through and good support for The Greens, so I'm really pleased."

(Adam Guise casting his vote)

The question for The Greens is how many councillors will be elected for the next four years?

"We'll get two, and it'd be great if we got three as well. Always, the 10th or 11th positions on council is anyone's guess because you don't need a full quota. So we're hoping that we've done the hard yards and the community supports us."

A frustrating turn of events for mayoral and councillor candidates is the election vote counting after 6pm. It has been decided that Lismore's pre-poll voting, of which there are 10,548, will be counted on Monday. This will more than likely delay the final makeup of council until, at least Monday, and could delay the final mayoral decision as well. However, we should get a strong indication of which direction the result will go.

There were 1,984 postal votes, with 999 scrutinised already.

Not everyone thinks this election is the most important item on the agenda today. A group of clowns at St Pauls Memorial Hall were highlighting Lismore's housing crisis.

A spokesperson said, "We think regular people should be involved in coming up with who the next mayor is in terms of the animal vote. It's not anything to do with animals, actually, this is just to do with grassroots politics. So, we're just some clowns from the local Lismore People's Assembly, and we think that just coming together and participating together is better than voting once every four years, and what we need to build in Lismore is sort of grassroots democracy.

"We're going to have an assembly on the 25th of September to talk about housing. It's a very serious issue, as you can see, and one of these representatives here will do the best job for Lismore, and it's up to the people to vote with a sticker."

Everyone is invited to the Housing Assembly at the Koori Mail on Wednesday, September 25, between 5:30 and 8:30pm.

A reminder that it is compulsory to vote, or you will be fined.

Candidate information can be found on the Meet Your Candidates button on the front page of the Lismore App. This includes all 22 voting booth locations.

The Lismore App will have live coverage of tonight's results on our Facebook Page from 6pm.