Wait times vary as early voting set to end this week Jay Lawson of the Hall County Elections Office opens a absentee ballot drop box Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, as Hall County Marshall Dwight Mobley observes at the Spout Springs Library. The ballots are removed regularly from the boxes. - photo by Scott Rogers Early voting for the Jan. 5 runoff will end Thursday, Dec. 31, and more than 24,000 people have cast their ballots since early voting began Dec. 14. As of Tuesday, Dec. 29, 6,406 people had voted at North Hall Community Center, 10,337 people had voted at Spout Springs Library, 2,988 people had voted at East Hall Community Center and 7,681 people had voted at the downtown Gainesville location, according to Hall County Elections Coordinator Paige Thompson.