Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Get a recap of our live blog of the results from Tuesday's special election for State Senate District 30.
In just a few hours, we should know who will represent Senate District 30 when the Georgia General Assembly convenes next week. Registered voters in the district had until 7 p.m. today to cast their votes for either Libertarian James Camp or Republican Mike Dugan. Helping to decide today’s race were the Paulding voters who cast ballots at four polling places—the Taylor Farm Park, Nebo Elementary, Austin Middle and Carl Scoggins Middle precincts. We’ll be bringing you live results from the Paulding County Elections Office, and overall vote totals periodically. In addition to a southern portion of Paulding County, District 30 includes most of Carroll County and a western portion of Douglas County. Return to Dallas-Hiram Patch for further …
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Voters in portions of three counties, including Paulding, will choose between Libertarian candidate James Camp and Republican candidate Mike Dugan to determine the district’s next state senator. Return to Dallas-Hiram Patch for tonight’s results.
The 2012 election season will finally end today as voters in parts of three counties, including Paulding, weigh in on a state senate race that has spanned since late last year. Registered voters in Senate District 30 will have the chance to choose between Libertarian candidate James Camp and Republican candidate Mike Dugan. The winner will then look forward to next week as the 2013 Georgia General Assembly gets under way. Camp lives just outside of Temple has been employed as a senior IT technician for the past five years with a small IT consulting firm in Carrollton, according to his website. Dugan is a 20-year Army veteran and local building contractor, according to his website. Related news: Meet Your Candidates: Senate District 30 …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Only voters in four Paulding precincts will be casting ballots at their normal polling places today. Today’s runoff will select the Republican candidate who will move onto a January special election to determine the next state senator for District 30.
Residents in four Paulding County voting precincts will have 12 hours today to visit the polls to weigh in on one election. Voters who cast ballots at the Taylor Farm Park, Nebo Elementary, Austin Middle and Carl Scoggins Middle precincts starting at 7 a.m. can head to their respective polling places to weigh in on a runoff election to determine the Republican candidate who will advance in the race to become the next state senator for District 30. Voters will choose between Mike Dugan and Bill Hembree in today’s election; the two advanced to the runoff by being the top two vote-getters out of four during a Nov. 6 special election. The polls close at 7 p.m.; anyone still in line to vote once the polls close will be allowed to cast a ballot…
Monday, November 26, 2012
Voters in four Paulding precincts have this week and Dec. 4 to help select the Republican candidate who will move onto a January special election to determine the next state senator for District 30.
The holiday season may be upon us, but for voters in four Paulding County voting precincts, it’s still election season. Those voters who cast ballots at the Taylor Farm Park, Nebo Elementary, Austin Middle and Carl Scoggins Middle precincts starting today can weigh in on a runoff election to determine the Republican candidate who will advance in the race to become the next state senator for District 30. The runoff between Mike Dugan and Bill Hembree will be held Dec. 4, but affected voters can early vote this week at the Paulding County elections office. The elections office is the only place early voting will be offered, but voters’ regular polling places will be open on the Dec. 4 election day. Related news: Dugan and Hembree advanced to…
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Friday, November 9, 2012
A Dallas woman who had not voted in 20 years was not able to cast a ballot in this year’s presidential election due to a state law that took her off the voter rolls due to inactivity.
It was this year’s presidential election that led Deborah Whitworth to want to vote for the first time in two decades. The Dallas resident took her husband to vote Oct. 29, the first day of advance voting in Paulding County. But when she attempted to vote at the Crossroads Library, she was told she had been “deleted out of the system.” That news shocked Whitworth, who had been a registered voter during the 1992 presidential election—the last time she cast a ballot. But for 20 years she has remained at her same Cartersville Highway home, which led her to question why she could not vote despite staying put in Paulding. She said election officials had told her that she had been sent notices that warned her that she would be taken off the …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Turnout was higher during the 2008 presidential election, but this year’s election cycle saw a higher rate of early voting.
More Paulding County voters took part in the 2012 general election than in 2008, but this year’s election saw a smaller turnout rate than the one four years ago. According to Tuesday’s unofficial and incomplete results, 57,483 ballots were cast from the county’s 77,831 active voters—a turnout of 73.9 percent. By comparison, the 2008 general election saw just over 79 percent of its 72,281 active voters cast ballots—57,108 in all. “We’re very pleased with 74 percent. It was a little bit less than 2008—we were at 79 percent [then]—but we’re just glad all the voters came out and voted,” Paulding Elections Supervisor Deidre Holden said Tuesday night, adding that the day’s rainy weather may or may not have played a factor. But this election …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Updated: Early voting and mailed-in absentee ballots have put Paulding County's voter turnout through Monday at 49 percent.
Updated numbers released Monday by Paulding County Elections Office Supervisor Deidre Holden show that the county now has 86,482 registered voters. Of those, 77,879 are considered active voters. The official turnout, Holden said, is based on the percentage of active voters who have voted. The county’s 35,602 early, in-person votes alone puts turnout at 45.7 percent. By comparison, in the 2008 general election, 31,648 in-person ballots were cast early from the county’s 72,281 active voters, or 43.8 percent of voters. Election officials for this year’s general election have received about 2,600 absentee ballots in the mail so far. Those ballots move this election’s turnout thus far to about 49 percent. The 2008 general election saw 3,939 …
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
An estimated 16 percent of Paulding County voters have already taken advantage of early voting. Residents will have seven hours today to cast their ballots. More voting opportunities will open up next week.
Those who may find it difficult to find time to vote on Nov. 6’s election day, or even next week during advance voting, are in luck today. Paulding County’s Saturday voting opportunity for the general election is today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the county’s elections office in the Watson Government Complex in Dallas. Today’s marks the 11th day Paulding voters have had the chance to vote in person for the general election. Deidre Holden, supervisor of the Paulding County Elections office, told Dallas-Hiram Patch that after the polls had closed Friday, the 10th day of early voting, poll workers had seen 1,769 voters cast ballots that day alone. So far, she added, the county has seen 14,018 residents cast ballots. Paulding as of earlier this …
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Deidre Holden, supervisor of the county’s elections office, reported strong interest in this year’s general election during a breakfast held Tuesday at the Paulding Chamber of Commerce.
Hundreds of Paulding residents have been no strangers to the county’s elections office in recent days based on initial early voting numbers and last-minute voter registration. Deidre Holden, supervisor of the Paulding County Elections office, spoke to community members at Tuesday’s Cobb EMC Power Breakfast held at the Paulding County Chamber of Commerce. Holden shared with those in attendance current and historical voting numbers, with one of the most recent statistics being the number of county voters who cast ballots Monday on the first day of early voting—1,163. “That is a record for our first day of early voting. [And] this is our first presidential election in our new office [in the Watson Government Complex],” Holden said. “I got …
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Today is the cutoff to register to vote in the Nov. 6 general election.
Today is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 6 general election. Paulding residents can register to vote by printing a voter registration application from Paulding County Elections & Voter Registration’s website or the Secretary of State’s website, going through the Department of Driver Services. As of Monday afternoon, Paulding County had between 84,000-85,000 registered voters. Early voting for the general election runs Oct. 15 through Nov. 2, with voting taking place each weekday at the county elections office. The advance voting period will be held Oct. 29 through Nov. 2, with voting that week held at the elections office and three satellite locations. All county voting precincts will be open on Nov. 6. Paulding voters decided…
Rachel Cook
8:26 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
It's the law. Get over it. Don't blame anyone but yourself for allowing your voter status to lapse. It's not the state's fault that you haven't bothered to vote for 20 years. more ›