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’ Friday, November 4, 2018
Election Day sets record for Forsyth County
By Kelly Whitmire 5
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com j
It was a busy election night
in Forsyth County on Tuesday
and rolling into early
Wednesday morning when
Forsyth County’s results start
ed coming in, but the turnout
was historic for a nonpresi
dential race. : :
For Election Day and three
weeks of advance voting,
Forsyth County had more
than 93,000 of the county’s
approximately 150,000 regis
tered voters cast ballots, a
turnout Barbara Luth,
Forsyth County's director of
voter registration and elec
tions, and her staff were
happy to see. L
“Turnout was wonderful,
To have over 65 percent turn
out for a gubernatorial elec
tion is outstanding,” Luth
said. “It was a record year in
advance voting and on elec
tion day.” :
Luth said about 52,000 cast
ballots in advance voting and
about 36,000 on Election
Day.
Though presidential elec
tion years typically get a
higher turnout and Forsyth
County did not exceed the
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morning and that he was “sure
glad to see them come to our
rescue” while in Athens with
gubernatorial candidate Brian
Kemp.
“When we were sitting in our
respective war rooms and
Athens, the entire state of
Georgia, felt the weight of
Forsyth County when their
votes came in late that evening,
and it absolutely changed the
trajectory of statewide races
because of how many rock-sol
id conservatives showed up to
vote for myself and Brian
Kemp,” Duncan said.
He also credited the county
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Jim Dean Forsyth County News
For Election Day and three weeks of advance voting, Forsyth County had more than 93,000
of the county’s approximately 150,000 registered voters cast ballots.
approximately 97,000 voters
in 2016, this year’s total far
surpassed the 2014 total of
around 56,000,
“I think it was great. I love
to see people vote,” Luth
said. “We had some irate,
with lifting him in this year’s
Republican primary and runoff
and said he wants to bring
Forsyth County values to the
entire state.
“To think of how well we
educate our kids in this county
has really helped shape the way
I think about education on a
state-wide perspective and
things that I think we can enact
state-wide,” Duncan said.
“From an economic develop
ment standpoint, we obviously
are in the midst of an incredible
growth period here in Forsyth
County and we're harnessing
high-paying, quality jobs, and
the value of that is something 1
think we can take and share
with the rest of the state from a
planning perspective.”
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only because they had to
stand in lines and, let's face
it, they’re not used to stand
ing in lines.”
Luth said the longest lines
were at First Redeemer
Church for the Big Creek
tive session begins on Jan. 14,
Duncan said he will be prepar
ing policy points and working
to build relationships with state
senators on both sides of the
aisle.
Duncan formerly represented
Forsyth County as state repre
sentative for District 26, which
is comprised of east and north
Forsyth, in the Georgia House
of Representatives from 2013
to 2017, when he stepped down
to run for the lieutenant gover
nor seat, :
In his term, Duncan support
ed legislation enacting more
harsh penalties for cargo theft,
a bill increasing the amount of
money Georgia residents who
donate to rural hospitals can get
back in tax credits and
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Precinct, which still had
about 250 voters in line when
polls closed at 7 p.m. but said
all had voted by 8 p.m,
She said other precincts in
south Forsyth, including the
Polo and South Forsyth pre-
limits for bars and their
employees and was named for
South Forsyth High School
graduate Michael Gatto, who
was beaten to death at a bar
during his freshman year at
Georgia Southern University,
It’s already been a busy year
for Duncan on the campaign
trail, starting with the
Republican primary in May,
where he earned 26.6 percent
of the vote, compared to oppo
nents’ David Shafer, who
received 48.9 percent of the
vote, and Rick Jeffares with
24.5 percent.
Since no candidate received
more than 50 percent of the
vote, Duncan and Shafer faced
off in a runoff in July, which
Duncan won by 50.15 percent
to 49.85 percent, including car-
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cincts, saw big turnouts,
Voting totals were not
reported until early
Wednesday morning, which
Luth said was a product of
the high turnout for the elec
tion and rules for when bal
lots can be counted,
“I think it was because of
the size and the numbers of
absentee [ballots] that we had
mailed out, We started open
ing at five and they were run
ning them through and get
ting them ready, but it was
just because of a lot of dupli
cations that we had to do
because people mismark bal
lots,” she said. :
“We can't start calculating
the advance voting ones until
starting at 7 p.m,, and we had
73 of those [machines] that
have to be closed down.”
After hosting the primaries
and runoffs earlier this year,
Tuesday’s election was also
the first election in the coun
ty's new elections office,
“It's wonderful,” Luth said of
the new facility, “It was so
much easier to maneuver
through that. The advance vot
ing units were all up on tables
so that they could just go
through and do things."
rying 66.3 percent, or 11,233
votes, of Forsyth County,
Duncan is a graduate of
Chattahoochee High School
and attended Georgia Tech,
where he was a scholarship
baseball pitcher and member of
the school’s 1994 College
World Series. After his junior
season, he was drafted into the
then-Florida Marlins organiza
tion, where he played for six
years and reached the AAA
level.
Amico, a Cobb County resi
dent who serves as chairperson
of car haul company Jack
Cooper, is a graduate of
Washington and Lee University
and earned an MBA from
Harvard University. :
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