Heavy Turnout Reported for Advanced Voting

DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — Dawson County voters returned to the polls this week for advanced, in-person voting in key runoff races for sheriff and tax commissioner.

Glenda M. Ferguson, Director of Elections and Registration, said, “The first two days have been great, really excellent. We had 202 on Tuesday and so far, we’ve had 139 today. That’s much better than I can ever remember for a runoff election.”

Tony Wooten and Jeff Johnson survived a four-candidate race in the May primary to advance to the runoff. Wooten won by a sizeable margin 1,527 to Johnson’s 1,157 but neither man garnered the 51 percent plus 1 vote necessary to avoid the runoff.

The candidates in the race for Tax Commissioner are Andi Hinson Juliette and Nicole Stewart. Juliette received 1,212 votes to Stewart’s 1,026 to advance to the runoff.

Ferguson would like to remind everyone that this is a Republican runoff therefore, only those who voted Republican, nonpartisan or didn’t vote at all are eligible to vote in this Election.

The schedule is  8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until July 22. Election Day is Tuesday, July 26 between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

There is one voting location for Advance Voting, all precincts will vote at the Dawson County Board of Elections Office, 96 Academy Avenue in Dawsonville. On Election Day, voters are to go to their assigned voting precinct.