That said, not everyone was happy.
West Cobb lawmakers and residents were riled Monday, saying the countyâs last-minute decision to move an early voting center from the Ward Recreation Center, in the heart of west Cobb, to Powder Springsâ Ron Anderson Recreation Center amounted to disenfranchisement.
The move was announced last Thursday along with the opening, in the third and final week of the early voting period, of two additional centers â one in Smyrna, the other in the countyâs northeastern corner. The county had faced withering criticism from advocacy groups for its decision to offer only five early voting locations, instead of the 11 it had offered ahead of the general election.
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After a letter from voting rights groups and concerns from the community, Cobb County has added two more early voting sites for a total of seven, down from the 11 the county had for the November election.
The county elections department announced they will be making these changes in a press release Wednesday:
Moving the advance voting location from the Ward Recreation Center to the
Ron Anderson Community Center in Powder Springs.
They will add two additional locations during the third week of advance voting:
The
The
Smyrna Community Center in Smyrna.
The NAACP, ACLU, and others sent a letter to the county Monday, saying that the cuts would unevenly affect the county’s Black and Latinx residents because most of the closed early voting locations were in minority neighborhoods.