The first four days of early voting saw more than 10% of Bulloch County’s approximately 53,000 registered voters already cast their ballot for the 2024 presidential election either in person or via an absentee ballot.
Bulloch County Election Supervisor Shontay Jones said in an email Friday afternoon that 5,425 people, including 1,488 on Friday, came to the Bulloch County Board of Elections and Registration office to vote since early voting began Tuesday, while another 437 absentee ballots were dropped off – a total of 5,862.
And the Elections and Registration office in the County Annex, 113 North Main St., will be open for early voting for the first of two Saturdays, Oct. 19 and Oct. 26, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Then early voting resumes Monday in the Elections Office from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. and the same times for Oct. 28-Nov. 1.
Additionally, three days of early voting for Bulloch County registered voters will be held in the Russell Union, 85 Georgia Ave., on the Georgia Southern University campus, Tuesday through Thursday, Oct. 22-24. Voting hours there will be 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
For the final five weekdays of early voting there will be another voting location, in addition to the County Annex. The new final-week early voting site will be Georgia Southern’s Entrepreneurship Innovation Incubator at 64 East Main St. in downtown Statesboro. It will be open for early voting only Monday through Friday, Oct. 28-Nov. 1, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.