Augusta's advance voting polls expanding to more locations early. Here's what to know

Miguel Legoas, Augusta Chronicle
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FILE: Will Cagle leaves the Augusta Municipal Building with his son, Whit, 3, after voting in a runoff election in 2018. Currently, the municipal building is the only Richmond County advance voting polling place, but two more will be opened on Wednesday, Oct. 26.
FILE: Will Cagle leaves the Augusta Municipal Building with his son, Whit, 3, after voting in a runoff election in 2018. Currently, the municipal building is the only Richmond County advance voting polling place, but two more will be opened on Wednesday, Oct. 26.

Richmond County has been seeing such high turnouts for early voting, they will be opening two additional polls ahead of schedule.

The local board of elections voted Friday to open Henry Brigham Community Center at 2463 Golden Camp Rd. and Robert Howard Community Center at 103 Diamond Lakes Way on Wednesday, Oct. 26. Until this point, the only advance voting poll in Augusta was at the Augusta-Richmond County Municipal Building at 535 Telfair St.

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Henry Brigham and Robert Howard were scheduled to open on Saturday, Oct. 29, but they are being opened early due to record-breaking voter turnout for a midterm election. Early voting started on Oct. 17, and the first week saw, on average, over 270 more voters than the first week of 2018's midterm, according to numbers provided by Richmond County Board of Elections Executive Director Travis Doss.

On Saturday, all three polls plus the one at Warren Road Community Center at 300 Warren Rd. will operate 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The municipal building will run Oct. 30, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Starting on Halloween, all four polls will be open 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Friday, Nov. 4. Voting will resume on Election Day, Nov. 8. At which point, all of the area's polls will be activated and run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. For a full list, go to augustaga.gov.

This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: Augusta, Richmond County adds more advance voting polls early