Early voting begins in Fulton for 2020 presidential primary

The state awarded Dominion Voting Systems a $104 million contract this summer to provide more than 75,000 new computers and printers to 2,600 precincts. The 18-year-old electronic machines in Fulton lacked a paper ballot and are being replaced with a patchwork of touchscreens, printed ballots and scanners.

MORE | Fulton County's mock election tests new voting system

Voters make their selections on large tablets, the system prints out the selections with a code, then the voters take their paper to a scanner, which records the vote and retains the printout as a paper record.

There was a mock election in February that had no hiccups for the 700 people who went through the process.

The biggest issue during the dry-run, said Fulton’s director of registration and elections Richard Barron, was that voters wanted to take their printouts home as a receipt. But keeping the paper means not only that your vote isn’t recorded, but it’s a crime.

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Weekday early voting runs until Friday, March 20 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

As for the weekends, there will be voting on two Saturdays, (March 7 and March 14) from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on one Sunday (March 15) from noon to 5 p.m.

Here are the polling locations:

• Adams Park Library
2231 Campbellton Road SW
Atlanta, Ga. 30311

• Alpharetta Library 
10 Park Plaza 
Alpharetta, Ga. 30009

• Chastain Park Recreation Center 
140 W. Wieuca Road NW 
Atlanta, Ga. 30342

• College Park Library 
3647 Main St.
College Park, Ga. 30337

• C.T. Martin Natatorium and Recreation Center 
3201 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW
Atlanta, Ga. 30311

• East Point Library 
2757 Main St.
East Point, Ga. 30344

• East Roswell Branch Library 
2301 Holcomb Bridge Road 
Roswell, Ga. 30076

• Evelyn G. Lowery Library at Cascade 
3665 Cascade Road SW 
Atlanta, Ga. 30331

• Fairburn Library 
60 Valley View Drive 
Fairburn, Ga. 30213

• Fulton County Government Center 
130 Peachtree St. SW 
Atlanta, Ga. 30303

• Gladys S. Dennard Library at South Fulton 
4055 Flat Shoals Road 
Union City, Ga. 30291

• Johns Creek Environmental Campus 
8100 Holcomb Bridge Road 
Alpharetta, Ga. 30022

• Louise Watley Library at Southeast Atlanta 
1463 Pryor Road SW 
Atlanta, Ga. 30315

• Milton Library 
855 Mayfield Road 
Milton, Ga. 30009

• North Fulton Service Center, room 232 
7741 Roswell Road 
Sandy Springs, Ga. 30350

• Northwest Branch at Scotts Crossing Library 
2489 Perry Boulevard NW 
Atlanta, Ga. 30318

• Park Place at Newtown 
3125 Old Alabama Road 
Johns Creek, Ga. 30022

• Roswell Branch Library 
115 Norcross St.
Roswell, Ga. 30075

• Sandy Springs Library 
395 Mount Vernon Highway NE 
Sandy Springs, Ga. 30328

• South Fulton Service Center 
5600 Stonewall Tell Road
College Park, Ga. 30349

• Wolf Creek Library 
3100 Enon Road SW 
Atlanta, Ga. 30331

There are also 13 pop-up locations, with varied hours and days, for extra early voting opportunities. They are:

• Crabapple Government Center Gymnasium 
12624 Broadwell Road; Alpharetta, Ga. 30004 
Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• Dorothy C. Benson Senior Multi-Purpose Facility 
6500 Vernon Woods, Drive NE; Sandy Springs, Ga. 30328
Thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• Harriet G. Darnell Senior Center 
677 Fairburn Road NW; Atlanta, Ga. 30331 
Tuesday, March 10 and Wednesday, March 11 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• Helene S. Mills Senior Multi-Purpose Facility 
515 John Wesley Dobbs, Ave. NE; Atlanta, Ga. 30312 
Tuesday, March 17 and Wednesday, March 18 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• H.J.C. Bowden Senior Multi-Purpose Facility 
2885 Church St.; East Point, Ga. 30344 
Thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• New Horizon Neighborhood Senior Center 
745 Orr St. NW Atlanta, Ga. 30314 
Tuesday, March 3 & Wednesday, March 4 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• Palmetto Library 
9111 Cascade Palmetto Highway Palmetto, Ga. 30268 
Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• Roswell Neighborhood Senior Center 
1250 Warsaw Road Roswell, Ga. 30076 
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, March 15 (noon to 5 p.m.)

• Sandy Springs City Hall 
1 Galambos Way Sandy Springs, Ga. 30328 
Thursday, March 5 & Friday, March 6 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• Atlanta Metropolitan State College 
Edwin A. Thompson Senior Student Activity, building 800 
1630 Metropolitan Parkway SW Atlanta, Ga. 30310 
Tuesday, March 3 through Thursday, March 5 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• Georgia Institute of Technology 
Ferst Center 
349 Ferst Drive Atlanta, Ga. 30332
Monday, March 9 and Tuesday, March 10 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• Georgia State University 
Student Center Court Salon – First Floor 
55 Gilmer St. SE Atlanta, Ga. 30303 
Monday, March 9 and Tuesday, March 10 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

• Morehouse College 
Morehouse Archer Hall, building 15 
830 Westview Drive SW Atlanta, Ga. 30314
Wednesday, March 18 and Thursday, March 19 (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

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