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Returned absentee ballots far outpace in-person early voting
Only Saturday to vote this one; then early voting Monday-Friday
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In this file photo, Jeannette Perkins, left, passes out face masks to sisters Tammy Humphrey and Shelia McGahee while making their way past deposit boxes for absentee ballots as the Bulloch County Elections Office and poll workers host early voters on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Georgians’ support or disapproval of the state’s controversial new voting law largely broke along political party lines in a survey the University of Georgia released Wednesday.
Roughly halfway through the three weeks of early voting opportunity, eight times as many Bulloch County residents have returned mailed absentee ballots as have voted in-person, and that many more absentee ballots remain out awaiting possible completion.
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