Turnout soars on the first day of early voting in Georgia

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Turnout soars on the first day of early voting in Georgia

#1 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:00 pm

Voters across Georgia rushed to the polls on the first day of in-person early voting Monday, with 69,049 people casting their ballots.

That’s a sharp increase from the last midterm election in 2014, when 20,898 people showed up on the first day of in-person early voting, according to numbers from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office.

Some early voters in Cobb County had to wait in lines for more than two hours, and others in Fulton County encountered delays because of technical difficulties.

But early voting has become increasingly popular in Georgia because it allows voters to decide what day they want to cast their ballots, and they can avoid lines if they arrive during low-traffic times.

About 58 percent of voters cast early ballots during the 2016 presidential election, and 37 percent voted in advance in 2014.
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Re: Turnout soars on the first day of early voting in Georgi

#2 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:36 pm

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Re: Turnout soars on the first day of early voting in Georgi

#3 Post by earendel » Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:33 am

Georgia using "amateur handwriting analysis" to disqualify absentee voters.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/201 ... ction.html

Not to mention that the Republican candidate, currently the Secretary of State, has cancelled almost 1.5 million voter registrations since taking office and is putting 53,000 registrations on hold because of violations of the "exact match" verification process.
https://www.wabe.org/voting-rights-beco ... nors-race/

This is the same person who attempted to eliminate polling places in majority African American precincts, forcing voters to have to travel up to 30 miles to cast their ballots.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/201 ... rking.html
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