Friday was the final day of early voting, and 9,606 Cobb residents voted in person during the advance voting period that started June 30, according to Janine Eveler, the director of the county’s election board. That total does not include mail and overseas ballots.
Eveler said Friday that Republicans generally turned out in larger numbers to vote ahead of time than they did before the May 20 primary.
She was not able to provide a grand total of Republican to Democrat voters because the state reports don’t come out until Monday, but she compared data from two dates to give an example: Thursday was the next to last day to vote ahead of the runoff election and saw 1,183 Republicans cast ballots in the county. The final day to cast a ballot before the primary was May 15, which garnered 1,127 ballots.
In comparing those two days, 56 more Republican voters, or about 5 percent more, turned out to vote in the runoff election.
Typically “the numbers go down in a runoff, so the relatively higher Republican numbers showed a continued interest in the races on that ballot,” Eveler said.
Democrats did not follow suit those same two days: 289 voted May 15, while 136 came to an early polling station Thursday, a difference of 153, or 53 percent fewer voters.
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