Back to the polls Tuesday

UNDATED - While Hall County voters will find no contested local races on the ballot for Tuesday's runoffs, that's not the case in several surrounding counties.

In Forsyth County Matthew Ledbetter and Bill Ray Jenkins are in a runoff for tax commissioner. Melissa M. Banker and Barbara A. Cole are in a runoff for chief magistrate judge.

In Barrow County Mitch Churchill and Clay Kelly are in a runoff for a school board post.

In Dawson County Joyce Chester and Linda Townley are in a runoff for tax commissioner. Julie Nix and Bobby Wallace are in a runoff for county commission.

In Habersham County, on the Republican ballot, Deray Fincher and incumbent Rick Moore are in a runoff for sheriff, and, Rick Austin and Anne Short are in a county commission runoff.

In Lumpkin County, on the Democratic ballot, Diane Stephenson and Chad Emerson Wimpy are in a runoff for commission district four. On the Republican ballot, runoffs will be held in commission districts one, two, three and four. John Earl Raber and Bill Scott, Timothy Bowden and Deborah Hutcheson, Robert C. Moore and Clarence Stowers and Marvin Martin and Al Parker II face off in those runoffs.

In Banks County, in the Democratic Primary runoff, Ivan Mote and Winford Popphan are seeking to become the party's nominee for Chief Magistrate.

HALL COUNTY

In Hall County, two races will be voted on - both of them statewide contests. There'll be a Democratic runoff for U.S. Senate between Denise Majette and Cliff Oxford. Only people who voted in the Democratic Primary July 20 and those who did not vote that day are eligible for this contest.

A Non-Partisan runoff for Georgia Court of Appeals between Debra Bernes and Mike Sheffield is also being voted on in Hall County, although the third-place finisher, who came just shy of making the runoff, Howard Mead, is challenging the outcome of the July 20 vote. The Nonpartisan ballot will be for those voters who voted in the Republican Primary or did not vote but wish to vote only on the Nonpartisan race. This contest will be on a separate ballot as well as the Democratic ballot.