Starting Monday and all next week, East Cobb voters will be able to cast their primary ballots in-person closer to home as early voting expands.
You’ll be able to vote at the East Cobb Government Service Center (4400 Lower Roswell Road) from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday. It’s one of three additional early voting locations that will be open in the county, in addition to the Cobb Elections office in Marietta.
There won’t be any early voting next Saturday, June 7, as well as Monday, June 8, the day before the election.
If you do vote next week, Cobb Elections is saying that it will be following CDC social guidelines regarding COVID-19, and to expect to wait in lines that may be longer than is typical.
Cobb Elections is strongly encouraging voters to cast absentee ballots, and you can either send yours via traditional mail or deposit it at a designated drop box at the East Cobb Government Service Center.
That can be done anytime, as long as it’s by 7 p.m. on election day, Tuesday, June 9.
However you vote, you’ll be asked for one of three ballot options: Democratic, Republican or non-partisan.
The latter is for judicial races, both local and state, and you won’t be able to vote for candidates of either major party.
Democratic and Republican ballots have the non-partisan judicial races included. Here are the sample ballots from Cobb Elections:
These ballots are countywide composites and contain candidates who may not appear on your actual ballot. You can download a precise sample ballot at the My Voter Page from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
What’s on the ballot?
East Cobb voters have several contested primaries in partisan races, including Republican primaries for Cobb Commission Chairman and Cobb Commission District 2, as well as Democratic and Republican primaries for Cobb school board Post 5.
There’s also a Republican primary for the 6th Congressional District race and a Democratic primary for State House District 46.
In countywide races, contested primaries include Democrats in the Cobb Sheriff’s race and Democrats and Republicans for Superior Court Clerk. Non-partisan races are taking place for three seats on Cobb Superior Court and one on Cobb State Court.
There’s a large field of Democrats pursuing their party’s nomination to face Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. David Perdue in November.
U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp to succeed the retired Jiohnny Isakson, won’t be on the primary ballot. The election to determine who fills the final two years of Isakson’s term will be decided in a jungle primary in November, with candidates of both parties. She’s one of them, along with Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Collins.
The Democratic presidential primary also is scheduled, and like the local and state primaries has been delayed by COVID-19 closures. Even before that happened, however, former vice president Joe Biden had virtually wrapped up the party nomination.
He’ll be listed as one of a dozen candidates on the Democratic ballot, most of whom dropped out not long after the primaries began in February.
Party straw polls
If you choose a ballot from one of the major parties, you’ll also be asked questions that respective party leaders, either local or state, have formulated to gauge where their constituency stands on certain issues.
Democratic voters will be asked 12 questions about climate change; environmental protection; election-day registration; non-partisan redistricting; cash bail; voting rights for convicted felons; a Cobb one-cent transportation sales tax; Cobb MARTA expansion; background checks for buying firearms; senior exemption for school taxes; a Cobb non-discrimination ordinance and prioritizing affordable housing priorities for the elderly and disabled, low-income earners, teachers and first responders in Cobb County.
The Republican ballot has four questions related to educational vouchers, limiting voting in Republican primaries to registered Republican voters, partisan declarations for Cobb school board candidates and whether Cobb should be a Second Amendment “sanctuary county.”
The results are non-binding .
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