Thousands of members of Georgia’s black community have come out to vote early in the US election, enduring long lines and hours of waiting. Many acknowledged they could have voted by mail or returned to a polling place at a different time, but with no expectation of voting becoming easier in the weeks to come, they saw waiting as a necessary step. ‘I wanted to make sure that my vote was counted,’ Wilbart McCoy said as he queued to cast his ballot. ‘The suspicions, or the alleged suspicions around mail-in voting, we never had those before but it pushed me to come out early’
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