Politics & Government
Precinct Analysis Shows Limited Impact Of Call For Change On Oconee County Electorate
The vast majority of the citizens, however, didn't cast a ballot, as turnout among registered voters was only 28.9 percent.
Oconee County citizens overwhelmingly chose the status quo in the just-completed primary elections.
Those who went to the polls selected candidates for the Board of Commissioners, for Sheriff, for the Board of Education and for Coroner who said things are ok as is.
Those who called for change only got a bit more than a quarter of the votes in each of the contested elections.
The vast majority of the citizens, however, didn’t cast a ballot, as turnout among registered voters was only 28.9 percent.
That means that the winners of the elections were explicitly endorsed by about two in 10 of the county’s registered voters, with another seven in 10 endorsing them by not voting at all.
If any of those seven in 10 wanted changed, they didn’t care enough about it to vote for it.
Yet an analysis of votes at the precinct level shows some evidence that, in the Board of Commissioners race at least, the issues in the campaign got at least a small amount of traction.
For more on the story, with a map of county precincts and charts showing the results of the precinct analysis, go to Oconee County Observations.