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RandySF

(70,652 posts)
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 12:27 PM Mar 2020

Georgia will mail absentee ballot request forms to all active voters for May primary

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Tuesday that all of Georgia’s 6.9 million active voters will be mailed absentee ballot request forms for the May 19 primary, a major push to encourage voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic.

The absentee voting effort will allow Georgians to decide on their choices for president and other elected offices from home, without having to visit in-person voting locations where the coronavirus could more easily spread. Early voting and election day precincts will remain open.

A large number of people voting by mail would be a significant change in the way elections are run in Georgia. While the state has allowed any voter to cast their ballot by mail since 2005, just 7% of voters did so in the 2018 election for governor.

The state’s vote-by-mail initiative follows an agreement by Raffensperger, a Republican, and the Democratic Party of Georgia to delay the previously scheduled March 24 presidential primary because of the coronavirus. The presidential primary will now be held May 19, along with races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, the Georgia General Assembly and local offices.


https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-will-mail-absentee-ballot-forms-all-voters-for-may-primary/s1ZcJ57g8qqIwyG6LNWfIM/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Georgia will mail absentee ballot request forms to all active voters for May primary (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2020 OP
Good. William769 Mar 2020 #1
Georgia will be bad for Sanders so that should help getting him out...at some point the DNC may have Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #2
RI is doing the same. It's a good idea. Totally Tunsie Mar 2020 #3
 

Demsrule86

(71,023 posts)
2. Georgia will be bad for Sanders so that should help getting him out...at some point the DNC may have
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 12:46 PM
Mar 2020

to declare him the presumptive nominee.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
3. RI is doing the same. It's a good idea.
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 12:56 PM
Mar 2020

I'd like to see it change permanently to VBM.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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