(BLM tweet above) Cobb County helped Joe Biden become the first Democratic presidential nominee to win Georgia since 1992. It had been reported on Monday that their elections director, Janine Eveler, planned to cut the number of early voting locations for the runoff elections on January 5th from eleven to five, claiming intractable employee issues. This came among other GOP voter suppression news – Tuesday, GA Republicans called for throwing out their own no-excuse absentee voting system they created in 2005, and cut down early voting sites in Forsyth County and others.
However, a letter from the NAACP, the GA ACLU+friends has caused some backtracking for Cobb County…Now Eveler’s proposing 5 sites for the first two weeks and 2 more for the final week. (Early voting begins on Monday, Dec. 14, and runs through New Year’s Eve.) Still not enough, if the multi-hour lines from the general election’s 11 early voting sites are any guide.
To help visualize the numbers, here’s a comparison of rough early-voting access ratios, comparing several Cobb County scenarios, with the three other similarly-sized counties in GA.
| County Name | Gross Population | #Early Voting locations | # of locations/per pop. |
| Cobb (Jan. 5th run-off) Original proposal | 707,442 | (5) originally proposed | (1) per 141,488 (!!!) |
| Cobb (Jan. 5th run-off) Revised proposal | 707,442 | (5) proposed + (2) to open in last week | (1) per 101,063 |
| Cobb (2020 Election) | 707,442 | (11) | (1) per 64,312 |
| DeKalb | 707,089 | (11) | (1) per 64,000 |
| Gwinnet | 842,046 | (9) | (1) per 93,561 |
| Fulton | 1,041,423 | (32) | (1) per 32,544 |
INDIVISIBLE VENTURA 