DeKalb Elections Board removes dropbox from VRE office

GREATER DECATUR, Ga. — During early voting this year, there will not be an absentee dropbox at the DeKalb Voter Registration and Elections Office on Memorial Drive.

The DeKalb Elections Board, at its Sept. 10 meeting, decided to remove the dropbox due to a decline in active voter registrations, which have fallen below 500,000.

State law requires counties to have at least one dropbox, but they can have no more than one per 100,000 voters, according to NPR. DeKalb County typically has six dropboxes and needs to have at least 500,000 active voters to maintain those boxes.


As of Sept. 10, there are 565,511 registered voters; of those, 499,453 are active and 66,058 are inactive. Those numbers are a moving target and change daily, DeKalb VRE Executive Director Keisha Smith said.



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