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Nearly 70 percent of voters cast ballots

Poll workers at the Whelchel precinct inside Riverbend Baptist Church process voters as they arrive Tuesday afternoon.

1107turnout4 — Poll workers at the Whelchel precinct inside Riverbend Baptist Church process voters as they arrive Tuesday afternoon.

Nearly 70 percent of Hall County’s registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday’s general election, falling short of 2008’s voting total. The Hall County Elections Office reported 59,543 of the county’s 85,079 voters, or 69.99 percent, turned out at Hall’s 35 precincts. Charlotte Sosebee, Hall’s elections director, had projected 75 percent.