The Nov. 6, 2018, election is casting a shadow over the Nov. 3, 2026, election.
In that 2018 election, voters in House District 121 rejected Democrat Jonathan Wallace, who won a special election in November of the previous year and had served only one legislative session, and replaced him with Republican Marcus Wiedower.
After two weeks of early voting, 31.1 percent of Oconee County’s registered voters have cast a ballot, down from 33.0 percent of the registered voters who had cast a ballot at this point four years ago.
Included in the count of votes cast as of the end of the day on Saturday were 10,236 Advance In Person ballots and 531 returned Absentee By Mail ballots, for a total of 10,767 votes.
Georgia Transportation Board Member Jamie Boswell will respond to a letter from Georgia House District 121 Rep. Eric Gisler asking for assistance in obtaining information about the proposed Truck Bypass of Watkinsville, the executive secretary to the Transportation Board said on Thursday.
Gisler sent a letter to Boswell’s Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) office in Atlanta dated Oct. 1 asking Boswell to help ensure that data, analysis, and studies supporting “any alignment decision” for the proposed bypass be released to the public.
Oconee County Schools has begun planning for the potential launch of a Georgia Pre-K program for the 2027-2028 school year, Jennifer Whitaker, Chief Academic Officer for the system, told the Oconee County Board of Education at its meeting on Monday.
The district plans to submit an application to the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) in January requesting approval to operate Pre-K classrooms, Whitaker reported.
Only 11 citizens showed up at the final Oconee County Commissioners Town Hall Meeting of the year on Tuesday night, but Commission Chair John Daniell gave his usual updates on county projects before opening the floor for questions.
The Town Hall was designated as an opportunity for citizens to ask questions about the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (TSPLOST) referendum on the Nov. 3 ballot.
The federal and state Constitutions give citizens protection from surveillance by governments, but they do not provide protection against surveillance by individuals or nongovernmental agents.
At present, there are few restrictions in Georgia on how individual companies, such as Flock Safety, manage the data they gather through Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) or other devices, such as video doorbells.
After the first week of early voting for the Nov. 3 election, 4,984 Oconee County voters had cast a ballot, down from 5,556 after the first week of voting in the comparable election of 2022.
The drop in voting reflects in part the fact that only five days of early voting took place in the first week of early voting this year, compared with six days four years ago. But decreased use of absentee ballots this year also played a role.
