Holly Springs, Hickory Flat Voters Can Cast Ballots This Weekend

Holly Springs and Hickory Flat residents who haven’t had the time to vote during the week can work to accomplish that task on Saturday.

The Cherokee County Elections and Voter Registration Office will open five locations on Oct. 25 for Saturday voting.

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

• Stone Elections Building, 400 East Main Street, Canton
• 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

Early/advanced voting will continue 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, Woodstock and Towne Lake 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.

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