One In Five Oconee Voters Has Cast Ballot For June 9 Election

With 10 days of early voting completed for the June 9 primary and judicial elections, just more than 20 percent of Oconee County’s 30,457 registered voters have cast a ballot, either in person or by returning an Absentee ballot.

Republican ballots continue to dominate.

Of the 980 In-Person ballots cast by the end of the day on Saturday, 88.8 percent were in the Republican Primary, and of the 5,188 Absentee ballots returned as of the end of the day on Saturday, 66.2 percent were for the Republican Primary.

Summing across the two early voting types, Republican ballots were 69.7 percent of the 6,168 cast ballots, Democratic ballots were 28.6 percent, and 1.8 percent were only for the Nonpartisan judicial races.

At the end of the first week of early voting, Republican ballots (In-Person and Absentee) had been 67.7 percent of the total, while Democratic ballots had been 30.3 percent of the total.

Early voting will continue on Monday and is being held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday this week at the Elections and Registration Office, 10 Court Street, across from the Courthouse.

Voters must social distance, and workers are wearing protective equipment.

For more on early voting, please go to Oconee County Observations.