Thousands Flock To Register To Vote in Paulding County

DALLAS, GA — Lots of new faces may be showing up at Paulding County polling places for next month's presidential election.

Thousands of Paulding residents registered to vote in the past few months, with the majority of them signing up during the two days before Tuesday's deadline, the Marietta Daily Journal reports.

The county's voting rolls swelled from 93,000 in May to about 99,000 this week, county election supervisor Deidre Holden told the paper.

Of those, 45,000 registered in the final 48 hours before the voter registration deadline this past Tuesday.

"The past two days have been absolutely crazy," Holden told the Paulding Board of Commissioners, according to the MDJ.

In addition to the presidential election, Paulding's November 8 ballot will include a statewide constitutional amendment that would allow the state to intervene in chronically failing public schools, a $77 million bond issue for a new county jail and a vote on Sunday alcohol sales in unincorporated Paulding County.

Early voting in Paulding County will run from October 17-28 at the elections office at 240 Constitution Blvd. in Dallas.

To read the original Marietta Daily Journal article, click here.