First Person is an interview series that features community members with unique stories to tell. Ahead of Georgia’s midterm elections on November 8, we spoke with three metro Atlanta residents who live or work near low-voter-turnout precincts in Clayton, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties.

Residents don’t often see or read about the important decisions that elected officials make at public meetings. But with this fall’s launch of Atlanta Documenters, your neighbors in Metro Atlanta have already witnessed and recorded how recent election board meetings can bear large consequences.

Canopy Atlanta’s Community Engagement Team surveyed people from communities across the five-county metro, to better understand their voting patterns and sentiments — here’s what they had to say.