Cobb 2021 elections advance voting continues through Friday

Just a reminder that there’s one advance voting location in East Cobb for the 2021 elections—The Art Place, 3330 Sandy Plains Road—where you can cast your vote in Education SPLOST VI referendum.

The advance voting hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and there isn’t going to be any voting until election day, Tuesday, Nov. 2.

Through Monday, Cobb Elections is reporting 6,018 people have voted in advance, including 1,169 at The Art Place.

If you elect to vote on Nov. 2, you’ll report to your usual election-day precinct, and Cobb Elections has sent along the following info for that, as well as for those dropping off absentee ballots:

For personalized precinct information, please visit My Voter Page.
For information on voting by mail, visit the Absentee Voting page or call (770) 528-2581.
Absentee ballots may be dropped off in person to a limited number of locations though Saturday, Oct. 30, as well as Monday, Nov. 1, and Tuesday, Nov. 2. Click here for details.

Those absentee ballot drop-off locations include the East Cobb Library (4880 Lower Roswell Road) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this week, including Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday.

For questions and for more information, visit cobbcounty.org/elections email info@cobbelections.org, or call 770-528-2581.

We’ll have more later in the week setting up the culmination of the 2021 elections, which include municipal elections in Cobb’s six cities, as well as school board races for Marietta City Schools.

The Cobb Ed-SPLOST VI, as we’ve noted before (our summary story from May; full project notebook here), would generate $894 million from 2024-2029 for school construction, maintenance and technology in the Cobb and Marietta school districts.

In Cobb, the big-ticket items are a rebuild of Sprayberry High School’s main campus buildings, as well as classroom additions at Kincaid, Mt. Bethel, Murdock, Sope Creek and Tritt elementary schools in East Cobb.

Cobb voters haven’t rejected a school SPLOST since the first referendum in 1998, but Cobb superintendent Chris Ragsdale has been actively defending the sales tax and how the money has been distributed following criticism of school district finances.