It’s late October, Do You Know Where Your Polling Place Is?

Georgia Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock (above, right) prepares to cast his vote at a DeKalb County polling station. Photo by Julia Beverly/The Atlanta VoiceThe polling places located across the state of Georgia were busy during the first week of the early voting period. Ranging from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1, the early voting period in Georgia saw a record number of participants during the first day in 2020 (136,000 votes cast), but that record was broken and more than doubled in 2024 with more than 300,000 votes cast on the first day. As of Sunday, Oct. 20, more than 1.3 million Georgians voted early. Knowing where your local polling place is and what you need to properly vote early or on Election Day, November 5, is important to the process of a fair election. Fulton County, Georgia’s largest county, has the majority of the state’s 2,300-plus polling places.& A polling station in Savannah. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta VoiceThe importance of easily accessible polling places has had an immediate impact on the current presidential election and local down ballot elections. As of Sunday, 160,676 ballots were cast in Fulton County, according to data provided by the Secretary of State’s online...