Light Turnout, Reforms Keep Metro Atlanta Voting Lines Short On Runoff Day

Poll workers speak with a voter at the C.T. Martin Recreation Center in Atlanta on Tuesday.

Emil Moffatt / WABE

Georgia held its first election Tuesday since the June 9 primary when many voters stood in line for hours to cast their ballot.

Turnout for the primary runoff election was light around metro Atlanta. At many of the polling places in Fulton and DeKalb counties that saw big crowds in June, the lines were nonexistent.

While the runoff only featured a handful of races, there’s also been an emphasis on hiring and training more poll workers, reopening polling sites that had been closed and placing an emphasis on early or mail-in voting.