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51,000 Cobb votes cast heading into last weekend of early voting

Early voting in Cobb will include 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays on Oct. 22 and 29 at the Main Elections Office and the Cobb County Civic Center. AJC file photo
Early voting in Cobb will include 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays on Oct. 22 and 29 at the Main Elections Office and the Cobb County Civic Center. AJC file photo
By Ben Brasch
Oct 28, 2016

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.

Early voting in Cobb County: When and where to cast ballots

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.

With such a tense election, make sure you check out this tool new to monitor election wait times in Cobb.

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Ben Brasch is the reporter tasked with keeping Fulton County government accountable. The Florida native moved to Atlanta for a job with The AJC. If there's something important to you going on in Fulton, he wants to know about it. Help him better metro Atlanta by dropping a line, anonymously or otherwise.

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