Large, iconic venues such as Dodger Stadium and the Staples Center in Los Angeles as well as State Farm Arena in Atlanta will serve as polling places this fall -- open to voters for early voting as well as on Election Day itself. The shift to sports arenas and other large venues as voting centers offers a way to accommodate in-person voting with fewer poll workers and more space to socially distance than a regular neighborhood polling place offers. State Rep. David Dreyer, a Democrat who serves as the chair of Fulton County's House delegation, was deeply involved in arranging State Farm Arena as an early voting center. What you'll end up having is what we ended up having in the first primary election before we had State Farm Arena," Dreyer said. At neighborhood polling places, she noted, workers can see what they're running short of.

Source: CNN September 08, 2020 12:45 UTC