We were wondering this back in 2020, when the Cobb government GIS (Geographic Information Service) launched a real-time wait-time map to assist voters during an extraordinary set of circumstances for elections:
How many people clicked that map link?
Our traffic figures reflected a high level of interest in that feature (including our most-clicked individual post link on Oct. 12, 2020, more than 75K times).
Cobb government said earlier Saturday that after two weeks of early voting in the 2022 general election, the wait-time map has been clicked more than one million times.
That’s also roughly the number of people in Georgia who have cast ballots during early voting, with one more week remaining.
In Cobb, the number of early voting is at 107,503, according to Cobb Elections, about 20 percent of registered voters in the county.
Through the first two weeks of early voting, 14,957 people have voted in-person at the East Cobb Government Services Center, the most of any location.
The Tim D. Lee Center is third, behind East Cobb and the Smyrna Community Center, with 14,620 votes cast.
That’s through Friday, with Saturday being the last Saturday for early voting. Sunday voting will take place for the first time in Cobb tomorrow, Oct. 30, from 12-4 at the Cobb Elections main office, 995 Roswell Street.
The deadline to apply for an absentee ballot passed on Friday. Those receiving them can mail them back in to Cobb Elections or drop them off at designated drop boxes during early voting hours only.
A drop box is located inside the East Cobb Government Services Center (4400 Lower Roswell Road).
All absentee ballots must be received at the Cobb Elections office or delivered to a drop box by the time the final election day polls close (7 p.m., Nov. 8)
This year voters will be choosing candidates in some new boundaries following redistricting, and there was an error in assigning some voters to the wrong post in a highly-watched Cobb school board race.
That’s in Post 4 in Northeast Cobb, where 111 voters have cast ballots although they’re actually in Post 5. Cobb Elections director Janine Eveler said 1,112 voters registered in the Sandy Plains 1 precinct were coded as Post 4 voters although they live in Post 5.
She said the votes that already have been cast cannot be changed, but the error has been corrected.
That race features Republican incumbent David Chastain and Democrat Catherine Pozniak.
It’s unclear what might happen if the margin of difference in that election is less than 111 votes, but the results could be challenged and a new election could be called.
Related:
- Candidate profile: David Chastain, Cobb school board Post 4
- Candidate profile: Catherine Pozniak, Cobb school board Post 4
- Accusations intensify in bitter Cobb school board race
- Candidate profile: JoAnn Birrell, Cobb Commission District 3
- Candidate profile: Christine Triebsch, Cobb Commission District 3
- Cobb early voting estimated wait-time map
- East Cobb Early Voting Guide: 2022 General Election
- Contested Post 4 seat on Cobb school board heats up
- Cobb 2022 general election sample ballot available
- East Cobb News Politics & Elections page
Get Our Free E-Mail Newsletter!
Every Sunday we round up the week’s top headlines and preview the upcoming week in the East Cobb News Digest. Click here to sign up, and you’re good to go!
