Muscogee Co. residents waiting to vote at the Columbus Public Library, September, 2008. (Dave Bender)
Columbus and Muscogee County voting officials report a high turnout in absentee ballots and early voting for Tuesday’s Senate runoff. Dave Bender reports.
Nancy Boren, director of Elections and Registration says the over 9,000 ballots her Columbus office has received since Monday is, in her words, “exceptional:”
"I think the biggest portion of it is you have all of the automatic ballots that we have to mail out anyway: all of the military, the elderly, and those that are disabled. The other reason is the mailer that was sent by the governor that enabled people to fill out the application for the absent ballot and receive it in their home with the holiday approaching – it just makes it an easy way to vote.”
Both parties have brought a bevy of national political heavyweights to Georgia to stump in the closely held race.
Voter turnout in runoff races is usually poor, but Boren says she expects to see higher than usual numbers this time.
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