There will be six days of early voting in Cobb County for the U.S. Senate runoff election.
A runoff was declared for Dec. 6 after neither Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock nor Republican Herschel Walker could get 50 percent plus one vote in the general election.
There are 12 early voting locations for the runoff, including the East Cobb Government Service Center (4400 Lower Roswell Road) and the Tim D. Lee Center (3332 Sandy Plains Road).
At the East Cobb center, there will be early voting on Sunday, Nov. 27 from 12-5 p.m. and from Monday, Nov. 28 through Friday, Dec. 2 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. There also is an absentee ballot drop box inside the polling station that will be open during early voting hours.
Early voting at the Tim D. Lee center will be Monday, Nov. 28 through Friday, Dec. 2 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Those voting early in-person can plan ahead by tracking the Cobb GIS estimated wait-time map.
There will be no early voting Dec. 3-5. On Dec. 6, voters who cast ballots in-person must go to their regular precincts.
For those requesting absentee ballots, they’re urged to apply immediately. Absentee ballots must be received at the Cobb Elections office (995 Roswell Street) by 7 p.m. on Dec. 6.
Those who cast absentee ballots can monitor the progress of their ballot at the Georgia Secretary of State’s BallotTrax feature.
There will be a special-called meeting of the Cobb Board of Elections and Registration on Friday to re-certify the general election results.
The five-member board certified the election on Monday, but on Wednesday said re-certification is necessary becuase it was discovered that a memory card had not been uploaded.
The meeting takes place at 2 p.m. at the Cobb Elections office.
For more information on the runoff election, visit the Cobb Elections website.
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- East Cobb News Politics & Elections page
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It is stupid that we need to re-request another absentee ballot.
That law needs to be fixed so that long time residents who request one are automatically sent absentee ballots without asking as long as their voter registration is valid.
Heck, I’d like for voting by mail to be the standard method, so everyone has little excuse for not voting. And for physical drop off boxes to be outdoors, monitored by video, available 24/7 during from when early voting starts until the day prior to the election.
It shouldn’t be impossible to drop off a ballot at 1am on my way home from work.
Mail-in ballots are too easy to tamper with and aren’t tracked at all. Absentee ballots require applying for, with ID. If that’s too tough for someone, then odds are that they haven’t done any research on candidates, either, and are voting on advertisements and other words of opinion.
The boxes are inside for a very good reason; they are being protected in there. If you can’t drop it off yourself, then you can have a neighbor or friend drop it off. I’ve been voting for 50 years now – and remember well the days of everyone voting on the same day. Kids got the day off from school and the polling places were school gyms or cafeterias. We had to wait for results because there were no computers involved at all and votes were counted by hand. Voting used to be considered to be a duty; now, it’s a chore. What difference does it make who we vote for? Why do we need to research anything? Look around you and you’ll see the answer.