Election Director Answers Democratic Questions About Voting Law

The large drop box installed in front of the Oconee County Elections and Registration Office last year to make it easy for county voters to cast an absentee ballot is a thing of the past.

The drop box has been replaced, Oconee County Director of Elections and Registration Rebecca Anglin told county Democrats at their meeting last month, by a different one inside the office itself.

Voters will be able to use the new drop box only during the regular hours when the Elections and Registration Office at 10 Court Street opposite the Courthouse in Watkinsville is open to the pubic, Anglin said.

The drop box also will only be available to voters when early voting is taking place.

That means the drop box will not be available to absentee voters trying to guarantee in the last three days before the election that their absentee ballots will reach the office in time to be counted.

Anglin was responding to questions posed by Oconee County Democrats regarding Senate Bill 202, labeled the Election Integrity Act of 2021, at its regular June meeting held at the Oconee Chamber Of Commerce in Watkinsville and live streamed via Zoom.

For more on this story, with a video of the Democratic Party meeting, please go to Oconee County Observations.