Cobb Elections said Wednesday that nearly 30 percent of Cobb’s roughly 540,000 registered voters have already cast their ballots, in person and via absentee.
Through Tuesday’s tallies, that breaks down to 88,053 absentee ballots that have been returned, and 72,165 votes cast at the 11 locations in the county open for early voting.
At the top of the list are the two spots in East Cobb. Through the first eight days of early voting, 9,104 ballots have been cast at the East Cobb Cobb Government Service Center (4400 Lower Roswell Road).
That’s more, at least for the moment, than the main Cobb Elections office on Whitlock Ave. in Marietta, where 8,715 votes have been cast.
Right behind that is The Art Place-Mountain View (3320 Sandy Plains Road), where 8,521 votes have been cast.
More details can be found here, and here are the daily tallies of early voting countywide:
- 10.12 7,729
- 10.13 6,865
- 10.14 8,123
- 10.15 9,411
- 10.16 9,835
- 10.17 7,391
- 10.19 11,282
- 10.20 11,529
As the daily turnout has increased, the wait times continue to go down. As of mid-afternoon Wednesday, the estimated wait times at both East Cobb locations were under an hour—50 minutes at The Art Place, and 30 minutes at the East Cobb government center.
You can check estimated wait times by clicking here; the estimates are updated periodically during the day by poll managers at each site.
Early continues through Friday of this week and Monday-Friday next week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and this Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at all of the existing locations.
Absentee ballot applications can still be requested from Cobb Elections, but you’ll need to hurry, by clicking here. 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 application.
Readers have been inquiring about absentee voting issues, including the ballot tracker.
A few days ago an East Cobb resident asked about how long it takes after a ballot is placed in a drop box before a voter is notified that it’s been received and counted.
The best information we had was that it varies from location to location and by each county’s collection procedures. Cobb Elections says it collects ballots from the 16 drop boxes daily.
The reader got back in touch with us to note that he placed his ballot in the drop box at the Mountain View Regional Library (3330 Sandy Plains Road) on Friday. At 8 a.m. today, he got a message saying his ballot had been received and counted.
The other drop boxes in East Cobb are at the East Cobb government center, Sewell Mill Library (2051 Lower Roswell Road) and Gritters Library (880 Shaw Park Drive) and are available 24/7 until the polls close on election day, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m.
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