Thursday March 28th, 2024 10:14AM

Voter turnout in Hall tops 40 percent

By Katie Highsmith, Ken Stanford
UNDATED - Voter turnout in Hall County Tuesday was 43 percent, with Saxby Chambliss and Lauren McDonald each carrying the county with about 80 percent of the vote in winning their respective elections for U.S. Senate and state Public Service Commission. Mike Sheffield carried Hall with 52 percent of the vote in the state Court of Appeals race that was won by Sara Doyle.

In Gwinnett County, one of the first modern-day Republican strongholds in Georgia, Chambliss carried the county but with only 64 percent of the vote; McDonald won Gwinnett with 63 percent. Political pundits have been saying the last few years that the GOP is losing strength in Gwinnett. Turnout there was 40 percent.

In Lumpkin County, where there was a school board race on the ballot as well as the three state contests, the turnout was the same as in Hall County - 43 percent.

HALL COUNTY TURNOUT

It wasn't a typical runoff election for Hall County elections officials Tuesday.

"Most runoff elections are slow and smoother," said Hall County Elections Director Charlotte Sosebee-Hunter.

She said unlike most runoffs, they've had a larger than usual voter turnout.

"It was greater than we predicted as far as sending out supplies," Sosebee-Hunter said. "We've had to expedite extra voter certificates to the precincts."

She said they had to send out about 400 extra certificates to each precinct.

Sosebee-Hunter said they had originally estimated a 40 percent voter turnout in Hall County for Tuesday's election but, as reported above, it was 43 percent.
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