Candidates for federal state and local elected offices in Georgia will be qualifying next week as early voting in the state’s presidential primary also gets underway.
Qualifying will be Monday-Friday of next week. To be more specific, the process begins on Monday, March 2, at 9 a.m. and concludes next Friday, March 6, at 12 p.m.
Cobb Elections has more information here about qualifying for offices in Cobb County, with a link to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office for state-level qualifying.
The Georgia presidential primary is March 24, but early voting can be done from March 2-20 at selected locations in the county.
For next week, those locations will be the Cobb Elections Office (736 Whitlock Ave.) and the Cobb Senior Wellness Center (1150 Powder Springs St.).
The East Cobb Government Service Center (4400 Lower Roswell Road) will have early voting on Saturday, March 14 and March 16-20 for the presidential primary.
Presidential primary early voting in East Cobb also will take place March 16-20 at Noonday Baptist Church (4120 Canton Road) and Tim D. Lee Senior Center (3332 Sandy Plains Road).
Voters in the presidential primary will choose either a Democratic or Republican ballot. In the latter, only incumbent President Donald Trump’s name is listed, per a decision by the Georgia GOP (sample ballots shown below).
All existing Cobb precincts will be open on primary day, March 24, and some polling places have changed, including several in East Cobb.
The Georgia general primary is May 19, and the ballots will be Democratic, Republican and non-partisan.
Among the local races in East Cobb that figure to be highly contested are the 6th Congressional District, Cobb Commission District 2, Cobb Board of Education Post 5 and State House District 43.
Cobb Commission Chairman, all legislative seats, all U.S. House seats and both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats will be up for grabs.
The deadline to register to vote in the general primary is April 20.
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