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Voter turnout considered a disappointment
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Residents cast primary ballots Tuesday morning in Clermont's Concord Baptist Church, Hall County's northernmost precinct. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Voter turnout Tuesday was mostly slow early in the day and things didn’t pick up later, with just 19.3 percent casting ballots when all was said and done. “I am disappointed,” Hall County Elections Director Charlotte Sosebee said. “Thirty-five percent is what I would have liked to have seen, but that’s me being positive and optimistic about the primary vote.