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Where have all the voters gone? Local officials are puzzled
Hall County turnout has lagged in sales tax votes in recent years
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Voter turnout was light Tuesday for the Hall County SPLOST vote. Only 6.5 percent of registered voters cast ballots, a low level of participation even for a sales tax vote.
Voter turnout seems to have bottomed out in Hall County. Last week, just 6.5 percent of registered voters decided the fate of a 1 percent sales tax to fund countywide infrastructure projects. In starker terms, only about 5,400 of 83,000 registered voters in a county of 187,745 cast ballots in the SPLOST VII referendum.