Record Turnout Expected Today as Voters Go to the Polls for Mid-Term Election

It is Election Day and polls are open today from 7 am to 7p.

Voters will go to their precinct polling place to cast their ballot today.

Interim Elections Supervisor Tracie Creason says she’s expecting a large turnout today.

In Franklin County, there is one polling place change and that is in Canon where voters will go to Canon Baptist Church today to vote.

In Hart County, if you are in Hartwell and did not vote in the May primary a reminder that the new polling place for Hartwell voters is the Hartwell United Methodist Church.

The change was made earlier this year to the church because it can accommodate more voters and voting machines.

Advance voting ended statewide on Friday but both the Franklin and Hart County Board of Election offices reported people coming in yesterday wanting to vote early.

Both Elections offices also reported record turnout for advance voting.

The Franklin County Board of Elections office reported that as of Friday at 5p, 4,177 people had voted early during the three-week advance voting period, and of the 457 absentee paper ballots sent out 369 were returned and 29 were canceled.

In Hart County, Elections Supervisor Robin Webb said the final tally of early voters as of Friday was 5,581 with 450 absentee paper ballots returned of the 535 sent out with 11 canceled.

If you chose to vote via absentee paper ballot you have until 7p this evening to return it to your local Elections office in order for it to be counted.

Again, polls are open until 7p this evening.

92.1 WLHR will bring you live coverage of tonight’s election results after the polls close.