Local elections affect you most: time to vote

It’s time to vote, today and tomorrow in early voting at the Board of Elections, 2808 North Oak Street, Valdosta, or Tuesday May 20th at your polling place. Turnout is very low for elections that will affect everyone in Lowndes County and beyond.

Two of the Lowndes County Commission districts will be decided May 20th (District 5 is a Special Election and District 2 has only candidates in one party): they will affect your water, sewer, trash, rezoning, road building, and taxes. All the Lowndes County School Board elections will be decided May 20th, for the education of our children, spending more tax dollars than the Commission. The elections for judges will be decided May 20th, to rule on cases that will affect everyone. The primary races for the legislature will be decided May 20th, affecting laws for the entire state. Here’s who’s running. You can get a sample ballot from the Georgia Secretary of State.

According to the Lowndes County Board of Elections, 308 people voted yesterday 14 May 2014, for a total of 2,403 in early voting as of last night. That’s about 4% of the 61,000 registered voters. This would be the time to vote.

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