51,000 Cobb votes cast heading into last weekend of early voting
More than 51,000 Cobb County residents have voted heading into the last weekend before the presidential election.
As of Thursday, 38,458 Cobb residents cast their ballot in-person since in-person early voting started in metro Atlanta on Oct. 17, according to statistics sent to The Atlanta-Journal Constitution from the Cobb elections office.
During that time, 13,187 mail-in votes have been returned in Cobb of the 24,801 sent out.
That makes for a total of 51,645 votes so far.
But the weekends make a difference. Last Saturday, 3,185 people voted.
About 3,700 people cast their ballots the first day of early voting alone.
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