After hours-long waits in weekend early voting in the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff, lines shrank considerably Monday in Cobb County.
Estimated wait-times of two hours and longer were reported at the East Cobb Government Service Center (above) on Saturday and Sunday.
Early voting is continuing there (4400 Lower Roswell Road) and at the Tim D. Lee Senior Center (3332 Sandy Plains Road) from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday this week.
Cobb Elections said Monday that turnout countywide was 13,686, with 2,469 turning out at the East Cobb government center.
When we drove by on Saturday afternoon, there also was a bit of a line to find a place to park.
But as the weekday early voting continued Monday afternoon, the East Cobb center was reporting waits of only 15 minutes, and 25 minutes at the Tim D. Lee Center.
(You can view the estimated wait-time map by clicking here; it will be updated periodically each day by poll managers at those locations.)
Other early voting spots had longer times, including two hours at the Ron Anderson Rec Center in Powder Springs and an hour at the Ward Recreation Center in West Cobb.
Turnout is high across the state in the battle between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker, even though control of the U.S. Senate is no longer being contested.
Democrats will retain a majority with at least 50 votes and the tie-breaking powers of Vice President Kamala Harris.
But more than 180,000 voters around the state cast their ballots over the weekend.
A Fulton County judge last week allowed for Saturday voting, overruling Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Cobb, which had already called for Sunday voting, added five hours of Saturday voting, one of 13 counties in Georgia to do so. They are all in metro Atlanta.
Voters in Cobb can go to any early voting location in the county to cast their ballots in person. Absentee ballots can be dropped off at the East Cobb center during early voting hours only.
There is no early voting this weekend. On Tuesday, Dec. 6, voters will go to the assigned precincts to vote. Absentee ballots may be dropped off that day only at the main Cobb Elections office (995 Roswell St.) between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Related:
- How East Cobb voted in U.S. Senate general election, governor’s race
- Cobb adds Saturday early voting for U.S. Senate runoff
- Recertified Cobb election results change outcome in Kennesaw race
- Cobb early voting schedule released for U.S. Senate runoff
- Two Democrats elected to open East Cobb legislative seats
- Mableton cityhood referendum passes after 3 others failed
- Birrell, Chastain re-elected in key Cobb races
- East Cobb News Politics & Elections page
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