Early Voting Starts Monday in Holly Springs

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Starting Monday, Holly Springs, Hickory Flat and Cherokee County residents who want to cast their ballots ahead of the Nov. 4 general election will have the chance to do so.

Early voting throughout the county will start on Monday, Oct. 13. Voters can cast ballots at the Cherokee County Elections and Voter Registration office from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13 through Friday, Oct. 17 and Monday, Oct. 20 through Friday, Oct. 24.

The office is located at 400 East Main Street in downtown Canton.

Cherokee County will offer Saturday voting on Oct. 25 for citizens who can’t find the time to make it to the elections office during the week.

Residents will be able to vote from 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the elections office as well as the following locations.

• Ball Ground Public Library, 435 Old Canton Road, Ball Ground
• Hickory Flat Public LIbrary, 2740 East Cherokee Drive, Canton
• Rose Creek Public Library, 4476 Towne Lake Parkway, Woodstock
• Woodstock Public Library, 7735 Main Street, Woodstock

Advanced voting will start the week of Monday, Oct. 27. Residents can vote from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 27 through Friday, Oct. 31 at those five previously mentioned locations.

No voting will take place on Nov. 3 and all county precincts will open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4 for the general election.

Along with the race for governor, state schools superintendent and a U.S. Senate seat, Holly Springs and Hickory Flat voters will also elect their next Cherokee County Commission chair.

Residents will choose between incumbent Republican Buzz Ahrens and Independent challenger Carolyn Cosby.

While Holly Springs City Council members Kyle Whitaker of Ward 1 and Dee Phillips of Ward 2 are up for re-election and did qualify to run for office, no challengers stepped forward to run against the incumbents. Thus, the city will not hold an election for the two seats.

“Since the candidates are unopposed they are hereby declared duly elected to the respective offices mentioned above following the date on which the regular municipal election for City Council members was to have been held,” the city wrote on its website.

The runoff date for state and local general election is set for Dec. 2 while any federal runoff election would be held on Jan. 6, 2015.