Early voting starts this week in Georgia and legal experts say now is a good time to make a plan and know your rights.
Between Oct.15 and Nov. 1, Georgians can head to the polls to cast their ballots.
Alicia Hughes, an assistant professor at Emory University School of Law, expects millions of Georgians to take advantage of early voting.
“At least 20% of Georgians are voting either absentee or early in that two-week window, and I believe that to curtail some of what was experienced in 2020 … folks are going to be voting early,” Hughes said.
In 2020, early voters and those who went to the polls on election day waited hours in line. That’s why Hughes expects many to get their vote in early. With a growing population of over 315,000 more Georgia residents from 2020 to 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, there will be …