Early in-person voting began Monday for the statewide Special Primary Runoff Election to decide the Democratic nominee for Public Service Commission District 3.
As this is a runoff, the early-voting window is one week only, so registered voters have between now and Friday to cast ballots early ahead of Election Day on Tuesday, July 15.
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The June 17 primary election featured very low turnout of just 2.8% of Georgians voting, though Union County beat the state average with 3.1% of the local electorate showing up at the polls for a total of 682 ballots cast.
Since this was a primary, voters had to pick a political party ticket to vote, and, statewide, the Public Service Commission District 3 race failed to result in any Democratic candidate receiving a majority vote to become the party nominee, hence the runoff.
And because Democratic turnout featured fewer than 1% of registered voters here, all runoff voting is occurring at a single polling location, including on Election Day. The polling place is the Union County Voting Center at 33 Roscoe Collins Drive in Blairsville.
In other words, there will be no voting at the various precincts of the county at any point during the upcoming runoff, as authorized under state law.
Early Voting hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., even during lunch, with Election Day voting to take place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., all at the Voting Center.
Voters eligible to cast ballots in this runoff election are those who voted on the Democratic ticket for the June 17 Special Primary and those who were eligible to vote in the primary but did not. People who voted in the Republican Primary cannot vote in the runoff.
The deadline to register to vote in this election was May 19, and the deadline to request an absentee-by-mail ballot was Monday, July 7.
Residents may visit https://mvp.sos.ga.gov for mail-in application and ballot status, registration information on file with the county, sample ballots for upcoming elections, provisional ballot status and more.
The Special General Election to follow will be Tuesday, Nov. 4, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Unless something changes, there will be no elections for local candidates or issues this year, just the statewide election for the Public Service Commission.
People with questions are asked to call the Union County Board of Registrar’s Office at 706-439-6016.
