Wet weather doesn’t slow early voting

Early voting is picking up steam in metro Alanta. Even when it rains.

“We are just tickled to death that people are coming out and doing all this voting,” said Lynn Ledford, voter registration and elections director for Gwinnett County. “It’s just great.”

Ledford said her office had a steady line of voters Wednesday which she estimated at just under 1,000. Tuesday was busier with 1,600 votes cast.

As of Tuesday, she said, the county has issued 28,241 ballots. A total of 14,735 people have cast ballots at the office, and another 1,788 have arrived by mail. That represents 4 percent of the county’s 404,619 registered voters.

At the rate we’re going now, we will vote between 70-80,000 people if not more than that before election day,” Ledford said. “I’m telling you, they love early voting.”

Early voter turnout is running just as briskly in Cobb County, said communications coordinator Tiffany Lewis.

“We’ve had a steady flow all week,” she said.

As of Tuesday, 13,649 people had voted in person. Another 18,854 ballots had been received by mail, Lewis said. The total of 32,503 represents more than 7 percent of Cobb’s 426,534 registered voters.

DeKalb County is seeing heavy turnout as well, said spokesperson Kristie Swink. As of Friday, the county had received 24,000 ballots representing 5 percent of 430,458 registered voters.