Thousands in line in South Cobb

[Eloriel]

DH drove by there today and called me just to tell me that. He was amazed. Mid-morning, Thursday.

[napi21]

1. Do you know how many machines they have there, or if it's the only

voting place in Cobb?

I live in Hall. We only have one advance voting site, and there were 7 machines set up. I asked them how many people they had voting early when I voted yesterday. They said they had 900+ on Mon, 1000+ on Tues, and 1300+ on Wed. Didn't have a count for Thurs, yet, but it seemed to be more than 1000.

I read in the paper that there was a problem in Gwinett because they only had 4 machines there.

[Eloriel]

2. Good question

Probably just one voting place -- after convincing my son to (finally!) register, I remember sharing info from the AJC about where he should vote early in Gwinnett, and noted that basically all the listed metro area counties (dunno about DeKalb and Fulton) only had one polling place per county. I have NO idea how many machines they might have had.

[napi21]

3. In the AJC they also said they should have had more!

I read the article where Cathy Cox said she had asked for 21 days of Advance voting but both parties fought her and finally agreed that there could be one week. Now they're all saying Gee, maybe we do need at least 2 weeks! I don't know about additional polling sites. I guess they all figured Georgians wouldn't go for it, or maybe they were both afraid of some last minute event that could change voters minds and didn't want to take the chance.

[Laelth]

4. I'm just guessing, but ...

I'd bet it was a budgetary issue. Costs money to keep the polls open longer. Still a bad decision though. People love the flexibility of early voting, and both parties want to lock their votes in early, if possible.

Another bonehead call by the leg. ... :crazy:

-Laelth

[Citizen Jane]

5. According to the SOS' website

Cobb should have had 5 locations for early voting.

Dekalb should have had 4 locations (and I did see 2 of the 4 with lines outside. There were a few hundred people wrapped around the courthouse and down E. Trinity at 6:20 last night waiting to vote; this was the same location that had a 3.5 hour wait when they closed the doors to the polls at 7 Thursday night!).

Fulton should have had 3 locations.

You can check all the "supposed" locations here:

http://www.sos.state.ga.us/elections/elections/voter_information/advance_voting.htm