Voting wait hits four-hour mark

Lines for early voting have now reached almost four hours in some counties.

The queue to vote at the Gwinnett County elections office was between 3.5 and four hours Friday.

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Elissa Eubanks/eeubanks@ajc.com

Voters stand in line at the Elections and Registration office in Jonesboro to vote early on a wet Friday.

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“There’s more people out there today than there has been so far during early voting, and it’s pouring,” said Gwinnett County spokesman Joe Sorenson.

In Cobb County, the line was a little under three hours Friday with about 200 people waiting under the building overhang, trying to avoid the rain.

More voting locations will open Monday, when “advance voting begins.”

VOTING NUMBERS

• Number of ballots cast by close of business Oct. 23:

967,210

• Number of registered voters as of Oct. 20: 5,748,838

• Early voting turnout: 16.8 percent

• Number of ballots voted in person: 828,934

Number of mail-in ballots returned: 138,276

TURNOUT DEMOGRAPHICS

Note: The gender numbers do not add up to 100 percent because the gender of voters listed in the racial category “Other,” is not included in the data.

TOP 5 COUNTIES IN TURNOUT