There have been reports of violence from the right.
There is a problem in having enough workers to open early voting. There may be budget issues as well. Knowing how forthright elected officials from Georgia have been I do not believe this is to reduce voter turnout. The campaigns should see this as an opportunity to help.
By Jane C. Timm
"A passerby (click here) stopped and confronted a supporter with physical aggression," said Henry County Police Captain Randy Lee in a statement later on Saturday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Four of the 10 most populous counties in Georgia (click here) are reducing the number of locations where people can vote early in the state’s Senate runoff races, prompting outcry from civil rights and voting rights organizations.
In Cobb County, the state’s third most populous county with more than 760,000 residents, election officials have announced five early voting locations, fewer than half of the 11 used for early voting ahead of last month's general election.
Advocates warned that the reduction of early voting sites will particularly harm Black and Latino voters in the state by making it harder to access the polls.
“We are especially concerned that these closures will be harmful to Cobb County’s Black and Latinx voters because many of the locations are in Black and Latinx communities,” a group of advocates, including Georgia branches of the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote in a letter Monday to local officials, calling on them to maintain 11 early voting sites for the runoff. They included a map that showed how most of the early voting locations are in areas with a higher shares of Black voters.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Cobb County Elections Director Janine Eveler said she didn't have the staff to run more early voting sites....
