Emergency precinct change made for East Cobb polling place

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Cobb Elections announced Friday afternoon that an “emergency” change has been made for the venue for the Elizabeth 05 voting precinct in Tuesday’s general election.

The precinct is located at Sandy Plains Baptist Church, but county spokesman Ross Cavitt said in a release that storm damage from Hurricane Zeta has prompted the change.

The polling station on Tuesday will be just up the road at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (2922 Sandy Plains Road), in the photo above. It’s located next to a U.S. Post Office and is at the intersection of Sandy Plains and Ebenezer Road.

The polls at all precincts in Cobb County will be open Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Early voting concluded on Friday and there is no in-person voting until Tuesday.

Voters with absentee ballots have until 7 p.m. Tuesday to have them postmarked if they’re mailed, or to drop them at a designated secure absentee ballot drop box.

Those 16 absentee ballot locations in the county (listings here) are available 24/7 until the polls close.

In East Cobb those drop boxes are located at the following:

East Cobb Government Service Center (4400 Lower Roswell Road)
Sewell Mill Library (2051 Lower Roswell Road)
Mountain View Regional Library (3320 Sandy Plains Road)
Gritters Library (880 Shaw Park Drive)

The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has created an absentee ballot tracker that lets you follow the status of that ballot after you return your ballot.

If you have an absentee ballot but wish to vote in-person on Tuesday, bring your absentee ballot with you to your precinct and it will be cancelled there. That must be done before you can vote in-person.

There are cancellation instructions that can be found here. If you don’t have your ballot with you when you arrive at the poll on the Nov. 3 election day, you’ll have to fill out an affidavit and poll workers will have to call the Cobb Elections office to have the ballot cancelled.