Early voting for next month’s Georgia General Election has started and will continue through Friday, October 30.
Those with a valid voter registration on October 5 are eligible to cast a ballot for the General Election, scheduled Tuesday, November 3.
Early in-person voting began Tuesday of this week and is available weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays at the Ware County Board of Election and Registration, 408 Tebeau Street. A valid photo ID is required at the time of voting.
Applications for an absentee ballot also currently are being accepted. Deadline to request those is 5 p.m., Friday, October 23.
Those can be submitted to securemyabsenteeballot.sos.ga.gov, emailed to [email protected], sent by mail to the board office address, faxed to (912) 287-4364 or requested in person at the board office.
Absentee ballots can be mailed to or dropped off at the board office. They must be received by the end of voting November 3 Voting Election Day will be 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at all locations in Ware County.
There are no contested Waycross or Ware County races on the ballot, but key state and national seats are available. Tops among those are for the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives as well as Georgia Governor.
Democrat incumbent John Ossoff is challenged by sitting Republican Dist. 10 Congressman Mike Collins in the U.S. Senate race. The Dist. 1 House of Representatives race is between Democrat Amanda Hollowell and Republican James “Jim” Kingston after incumbent Buddy Carter made a bid for the GOP Senate nomination won by Collins.
In the Statehouse, Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms faces Republican Rick Jackson to be successor to Brian Kemp as Governor. Jackson has an appearance today (Wednesday, October 14) in Pierce County at Stewart Distribution, 400 Bonneyman Road for a meet ‘n’ greet.
Neither Mike Hodges in Dist. 3 nor Russ Goodman in Dist. 8 faces opposition for their Senate seats.
Republicans John Corbett (Dist. 174) and James Burchett (Dist. 176), however, face opposition, in Democrats David Hall and Marcus T. Ryan, respectively.
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