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CottonBear

(21,615 posts)
Tue Oct 18, 2022, 08:28 AM Oct 2022

Report from the 1st day of early voting in my Northeast GA county: big voter turnout!

Yesterday (Monday October 17) I voted early, in-person at my county Board of Elections office.

There was a long line of people stretching up the sidewalk. While we waited in line, poll workers brought us clipboards & pens to fill out the paperwork to give to the official inside, who then checked our ID and issued our poll card. It was an absolutely beautiful fall day! Everyone was excited and energized to vote!

As usual, the BoE employees and poll workers were running a very professional and efficient operation. It took me about 30 minutes to vote. Our county Board of Elections always does a great job!

When I left about 4pm, the line was as long as when I arrived!

A Board of Elections official told me that people were lined up to vote at 7am that morning. She said that the BoE office didn’t even open until 8am, and voting wasn’t even scheduled to start until 9am!

She told me that people had been coming to vote all day long! The line never got shorter.

The turnout was big, y’all! 😀 Way to go, my fellow citizens! 🙌

GOTV for Democrats up & down the ballot! 🗳🍑🇺🇸

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Report from the 1st day of early voting in my Northeast GA county: big voter turnout! (Original Post) CottonBear Oct 2022 OP
Great! Doc Sportello Oct 2022 #1
You're welcome! IGNORE THE POLLS! GOTV! Door knock, phone bank, send postcards! CottonBear Oct 2022 #4
Good. But, I'd like to hear similarly from NW part of GA (i.e., District 14--MTG wasteland) hlthe2b Oct 2022 #2
Hopefully, we'll get a report from a NW GA DUer! nt CottonBear Oct 2022 #5
What county are you in? CurtEastPoint Oct 2022 #3
Clarke CottonBear Oct 2022 #6
Good news! I hope this continues. I am reading about huge turnouts. I'm in Fulton. CurtEastPoint Oct 2022 #7
Excellent news about Fulton County! Please keep us updated. CottonBear Oct 2022 #8
Yep. Busy in Dekalb county, too relayerbob Oct 2022 #9
Great news from DeKalb County! Democratic women rock! CottonBear Oct 2022 #11
There were a couple of older women voting relayerbob Oct 2022 #13
Gwinnett wait times page ga_girl Oct 2022 #10
Good news from Gwinnett County too! Thanks for the info! CottonBear Oct 2022 #12

CottonBear

(21,615 posts)
4. You're welcome! IGNORE THE POLLS! GOTV! Door knock, phone bank, send postcards!
Tue Oct 18, 2022, 08:41 AM
Oct 2022

Encourage your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers to vote!

Ask the cashiers at the stores where you shop if they have a plan to vote. Talk to everyone!

Share information & links on how, where, and when to early vote and how, where, and when to vote on Election Day: Tuesday November 8, 2022.

(See my pinned post at the top of the Georgia group for voter info links.)

CottonBear

(21,615 posts)
6. Clarke
Tue Oct 18, 2022, 08:45 AM
Oct 2022

We are a gerrymandered progressive, blue island in a sea of red!

Also, KKKemp’s hometown. 👎

CottonBear

(21,615 posts)
8. Excellent news about Fulton County! Please keep us updated.
Tue Oct 18, 2022, 09:15 AM
Oct 2022

I know that the Fulton County Board of Elections is a target of Kemp, Ratffensperger, and the GA GOP.

The GOP has done everything possible to make voting less easy and less accessible in the mist populous county in Georgia.

GOTV Fulton County! 🗳🍑🇺🇸

CottonBear

(21,615 posts)
11. Great news from DeKalb County! Democratic women rock!
Tue Oct 18, 2022, 10:46 AM
Oct 2022

There were lots of women voting when I was voting yesterday. As a woman, I was really happy to see that kind of turnout by us ladies!

I saw all sorts of women: black, white, gay, straight, students, workers, & professionals.
There were women of all ages, except for the very elderly, who I hope will be voting by absentee ballot.

Please keep us updated on voting turnout in DeKalb County.

relayerbob

(7,038 posts)
13. There were a couple of older women voting
Tue Oct 18, 2022, 11:52 AM
Oct 2022

But then, early voting was at a Senior Center, ha. But, like you, I saw all manners of women, including two who refused the rule requiring masks in the building, so I suspect they weren't Dems.

ga_girl

(198 posts)
10. Gwinnett wait times page
Tue Oct 18, 2022, 10:45 AM
Oct 2022

Is showing short waits at all 11 AIP locations. I need to take care of voting today. And I was able to get the BoE office to straighten out my employment status, so I'll be working November.

CottonBear

(21,615 posts)
12. Good news from Gwinnett County too! Thanks for the info!
Tue Oct 18, 2022, 11:12 AM
Oct 2022

Will you be working the polls in November?

GOTV! 🗳🍑🇺🇸

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