Let America Vote Calls on Cobb and DeKalb Counties to Restore Convenient Early Voting in Georgia 6th Special Election

Kansas City, MO – Let America Vote President Jason Kander today sent letters to election officials in Cobb and DeKalb Counties urging them to reverse plans that would eliminate or limit early voting locations in the Georgia 6th Congressional District special election to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Tom Price.

“Early voting is sometimes the only way a person can participate in an election,” Kander said. “There are people who can’t take time off from work or who don’t have reliable transportation that count on early voting to participate in elections. Changing the rules for one election, especially reducing access to the polls, causes needless confusion for voters. Election authorities in Cobb and DeKalb Counties should reconsider their plans and add early voting locations and extend their hours.”

In his letter to Cobb County Election Director Janine Eveler, Kander urged her to rescind plans to eliminate two of the three early voting locations in the 6th Congressional District in Cobb County. Kander also noted that voters in Fulton County and DeKalb County will be permitted to vote early on April 14th, while voters in Cobb County will not.

Read Let America Votes’ letter to Director Eveler here.

Kander’s letter to Maxine Daniels, Director of the DeKalb County Board of Registration & Elections, expressed concern that there will be no early voting locations in the part of DeKalb County that falls in the 6th District. In the November 2016 general election, there were four early voting locations DeKalb’s portion of the 6th District. DeKalb County officials immediately replied to Kander’s letter to say that the DeKalb County Board of Registration & Elections will reconsider advance voting sites at their meeting on March 27.

Read Let America Votes’ letter to Director Daniels here.

Let America Vote launched in February 2017 to fight back against proposals across the country that make it harder for eligible voters to exercise their constitutional right to cast a ballot. Whether it’s extreme identification requirements, questionable purges of voter rolls, voter intimidation, new and extreme voter registration processes, or anything that makes voting harder, Let America Vote will be there to lead the way against it. Its president is Jason Kander, the former Missouri Secretary of State.