Early Voting starts October 15. Check out the schedule below.
Coverage of a meeting where nothing much happened, but some interesting facts were stated. I just gotta say: the DeKalb Board of Elections has transparency issues. Skittish about sharing info, a board member showed me a document, but would not let John Askins take a photo of it, even though the paper had been distributed to members and discussed IN AN OPEN MEETING. Jeebus.
Note: Last month, @DeKalbVotes reported 40,000 voter registration applications pending and is receiving absentee ballot requests at the rate of about 500 a day.
Big Number: @DeKalbVotes docs show 158K voter registration applications in 2018 through Sept. That month, DeKalb received >20K apps thru Secretary of State and almost 7K thru BOE office. In June total DeKalb voter registration was 479K. EARLY VOTING BEGINS OCT 15 Thread 1/3
— Jonathan Grant (@Brambleman) October 11, 2018
In response, Chair Samuel Tillman said he's written 2 letters calling on Kemp to resign due to election conflict. Tillman also commended @DeKalbVotes staff for hard work during election season, inc. Sunday hours. Director Erica Hamilton said workload was similar to 2008. 3/3
— Jonathan Grant (@Brambleman) October 11, 2018
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