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Are you saying that this is fine because everyone knows early voting means limited number of polling stations? You also cherry-picked a specific county with an

• bpt3 6y ago
  I posted something similar to the parent below. There has been 1 open polling location in my county, with a dozen or so more opening this week, and hundreds more opening for election day. All the other counties near me are following the same model. I haven't seen data for every locality, but in my experience, yes there is an extreme difference between the number of early polling locations vs. the number open on election day.
• jdmichal 6y ago
  I didn't cherry pick, I picked a county I'm familiar with because I live there. Maybe some other people can chime in with their local areas. But since Georgia was one of the two areas mentioned in the article, let's look at Fulton county, which is where Atlanta, GA is located. It looks like there's about 30 early polling locations [0] vs 380 or so polling locations on election day [1]. So still 12-13x differential. [0] https://www.fultoncountyga.gov/services/voting-and-elections/early-voting-locations https://www.fultoncountyga.gov/services/voting-and-elections... [1] (PDF) https://www.fultoncountyga.gov/-/media/Precinct-LocatorNovember-2020-General.ashx https://www.fultoncountyga.gov/-/media/Precinct-LocatorNovem... EDIT: I forgot the address the first sentence. I believe I made it quite clear that I see missed opportunity here.