Earlier this week we told you about an online process that’s underway for requesting an absentee ballot for the Nov. 3 general election from the Cobb Board of Elections and Registration.
On Friday, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office launched an online portal for voters to request an absentee ballot.
Similar to the Cobb online portal, this one asks voters to fill out their name and date of birth, and they must also provide a driver’s license or state identification number, as well as their county of residence.
That information will be sent to a voter’s county elections office for processing and for mailing an absentee ballot.
More from the Georgia Recorder.
Also this week, the Secretary of State’s Office announced it was delivering personal protective equipment to election workers in Cobb County.
Through the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, Cobb workers will be getting 1,600 masks, 850 face shields, 217 pairs of gloves, and 100 boxes of disinfectant wipes.
Here’s more from what the Secretary of State’s office sent out:
The PPE request comes on top of an order for 11,000 gallons of hand sanitizer that the Office of the Secretary of State placed earlier this year. The hand sanitizer will be distributed to the counties ahead of the November elections.
Earlier this year, GEMA/HS provided 84,000 masks, 290,000 gloves, and hand sanitizer for county elections officials ahead of the June 9 election. The Office of the Secretary of State coordinated the order and distributed it to county elections officials.
In addition, before the June 9 elections, the Secretary of State’s office purchased and distributed 35,000 masks, hundreds of thousands of gloves, 27,500 bottles of hand-sanitizer, and 60,000 stylus pens for voters to use when they voted. The Secretary of State’s office also provided $3,000 dollar grants to Georgia’s counties to purchase additional PPE on their own.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and record absentee ballot votes cast by mail, significant numbers of Georgia voters turned out in-person to vote. On June 9, 810,000 Georgia voters went to the polls to cast their ballot. An additional 325,000 cast their ballots early and in-person during the state’s three weeks of early voting.
Voter turnout in November is expected to be three times as high.
Cobb Elections is seeking poll workers for election day. More information can be found here.
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