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IMPORTANT: DeKalb Runoff Election

August 11, 2020

We are less than 5 weeks out from the Runoff Election. Here is the link to download your application for an absentee ballot:
https://sos.ga.gov/admin/files/Fillable%20Absentee%20Ballot%20Form%2020.pdf

To complete your application you will need your Voter Registration number. If you do not know your number and cannot locate your voter registration card, no worries. It is easily located on the Georgia Secretary of State website: https://www.mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP/mvp.do Fill out the MVP login at the top right and click submit, then scroll down to the bottom, to the black box - "print/email precinct card" click and your card will pop up with your number.

You can return your application for an absentee ballot by one of the following methods:

Email: [email protected]

Mail to: DeKalb Elections - Absentee Ballot Request

4380 Memorial Drive, Suite 300

Decatur, GA 30032

FAX - 404-298-4038

Currently, the DeKalb Elections Offices are closed to the public, due to COVD19. As of this writing, they did not have a reopening date so you cannot go to the office to pick up an application for an absentee ballot.

If you have any questions, you can contact them by phone at 404-298-4020 or by email: [email protected] .

Early voting will be July 20 - August 7 at three locations.

(1) DeKalb County Elections office, 4380 Memorial Drive.

(2) South DeKalb Mall

(3) Dunwoody Library

As of today, July 9, there is not a sample ballot on the elections website, the election results were not certified until June 25.

These are the races on the Runoff ballot:

DeKalb County Sheriff

DeKalb Superior Court Judge, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit

DeKalb County Board of Education District 3 - District 3 represents schools in southwest DeKalb and includes parts of Avondale Estates, Ellenwood and Decatur.

House District 86

DeKalb Commission District 1

DeKalb Commission District 6

Super District 6 represents the western half of DeKalb County which includes portions of the city of Atlanta, Avondale Estates, Brookhaven, Chamblee, Clarkston, Decatur and Dunwoody. If you are not sure, if you live in District 6, here is the link to the precincts in District 6:
https://www.dekalbcountyga.gov/sites/default/files/user305/Super%20Commission%20Report%206.pdf

Please share this information and vote in this very important election. Every vote is needed.

Thank you.

There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And, if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

—Joan Kirner at Women Into Power Conference, Adelaide, Australia, October 1994

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