The final day of early voting ahead of next week’s Georgia Senate runoff was much like the first day, marked by long lines at a number of voting locations and growing numbers.
In Fulton County, 17 of the 24 early voting locations reported wait times of more than an hour on Friday afternoon. It was more than two hours at Chastain Park Recreation Center in Atlanta just after 2 p.m., according to the county’s online wait times tracker. Fulton County said only voters would be allowed Friday at several libraries and a senior center that are serving as early voting locations.
By 8 p.m. the one-day total had grown to 350,574. “That’s just an amazing number. Great job by the counties’ elections officials and voters,” Sterling said.Voting precincts will be open statewide on Tuesday for a number of local runoffs and the closely watched Georgia Senate runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.
On Friday, many of the early voting locations close at 7 p.m. If you are still in line at 7 p.m., you will be allowed to vote. A number of metro Atlanta voting locations had estimated waits of more than an hour Friday evening.—DeKalb County had nine voting locations with wait times of 30 to 60 minutes. Two, Emory University, Tucker Library and the former Sam’s Club in Stonecrest, were more than an hour.
—Cobb County’s longest reported wait at 3 p.m. Friday was the Smyrna Community Center, with a line of 40 minutes.—In Clayton County, the longest wait was almost two hours at the Carl Rhodenizer Recreation Center in Rex.—In Henry County, the wait was reported at 2 hours for the JP Moseley precinct in Stockbridge.
—A caution for voters: The wait times reported by county election sites are not automated, so the actual time a voter waits in line may be longer or shorter than what the website says.—Wait times in Chatham County, which includes Savannah, were at least 60 minutes at 2:30 p.m. on Friday.
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