The first of five days of early voting in the Special Democratic Primary Runoff to select the party’s nominee for District 3 Public Service Commissioner gets underway at 8 a.m. on Monday (July 7) at the Oconee County Administrative Building, 7635 Macon Highway, north of Watkinsville
The only names on the ballot are Peter Hubbard and Keisha Sean Waites.
Hubbard works as a clean energy advocate for the Georgia Center for Energy Solutions, which he created. He was a consultant at Siemens Energy Business Advisory.
Waites served in the Atlanta City Council from 2020 to 2024 and the Georgia House of Representatives from 2012 to 2017. She has worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency U.S. Small Business Administration.
District 3 consists of Clayton, DeKalb, and Fulton counties, but voters in Oconee County and throughout the state will select the District 3 commissioner in November balloting. The Republican incumbent is Fitz Johnson.
Oconee County voters who selected the Democratic Ballot in the June 17 Primary will be eligible to vote in the District 3 runoff, which culminates in election day voting on July 15.
In addition, any Oconee County registered voter who did not vote in the June 17 Democratic or Republican primary can cast a ballot in the runoff.
June 17 Results
In June 17 voting in the Democratic Party Primary in Oconee County for District 3 on the Public Service Commission, Robert Jones received 36.9 percent of the Democratic vote, Peter Hubbard received 35.9 percent, and Keisha Sean Waites received 27.2 percent.
Statewide results had Hubbard with 33.3 percent, Jones with 20.7 percent, and Waites with 46.1 percent, so Hubbard and Waites moved forward to the July 17 runoff.
Fitz Johnson was unopposed in the Republican Party Primary for District 3.
The Republican Primary on June 17 had competition for District 2 Public Service Commissioner, with incumbent Tim Echols receiving 85.6 percent of the vote in Oconee County, to 14.4 percent for Lee Muns.
Statewide, Tim Echols got 75.8 percent of the vote, and Muns received 24.2 percent of the vote.
Alicia M. Johnson ran unopposed in the Democratic Primary for District 2.
District 2, which includes Oconee County, consists of 38 counties from eastern metropolitan Atlanta to the Savannah River and from Hart County in the north to Chatham County in the south.
Eligible Voters
In the June 17 primary, 835 Oconee County voters cast a Republican Party Ballot, and 487 cast a Democratic Party Ballot.
Oconee County had 34,515 eligible voters going into the June 17 primaries, 32,555 of whom were labeled as Active. After the June 17 voting, the number of Active voters was 32,553.
Because Georgia does not have registration by party, only the 835 voters who cast a Republican Party ballot on June 17 are ineligible to participate in the Democratic Party runoff.
Advance voting will continue from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday. No Saturday advance voting will be held.
The Oconee County Democratic Party has created a Public Service Commission Primer that includes links to information about both Hubbard and Waites.
2 comments:
Hi Lee, this is a little confusing:
"In addition, any Oconee County registered voter who did not vote in the June 17 Democratic or Republican primary can cast a ballot in the runoff."
Further down you stated correctly that only those who cast a ballot in the Republican primary are barred from voting in the Dem runoff, but this part higher up seems to contradict that. Thanks again for all you do!
Eric,
Sorry. I don't see the conflict between these two statements.
Those who did not vote in the primary can vote.
Those who voted in the Democratic primary can vote.
Those who voted in the Republican primary cannot.
Does that help?
Thanks.
Lee
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