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tonight some disturbing now mr. mayor was your push to expand early voting sites that prompted the GOP lawmaker to talk about african-american shoppers and more educated voters what's your reaction to that well it's unfortunate that Senator Melara ticket took this position we were simply attempting to increase accessibility to the polls you know the trend in DeKalb County Georgia is that during presidential elections voter participation is as high as seventy percent but during off-year elections it dwindles down as low as forty percent and so by adding one additional day on October the 26 it gives us an additional day for people to get out and vote and then on top of that we also increase expanded the locations of where they can vote as well now we put it at south dekalb mall which is predominantly african-american area but we made the attempt to expand it throughout all of DeKalb County's that's the north in the South Democrat and Republican so we'd attempted to do it in a very fair a