Early voting starts one week from today, so for those who already know who you’re voting for in every race, PLEASE spare yourself some time and go vote early! You can find your voting times/district information on the Secretary of State’s “My Voter Page“.
In Lee County, we don’t have any special questions placed on our primary ballots, but others in the State do.
For Lee County, you can see sample ballots here and here for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively.
Meanwhile, to give you an example of the questions at least one County Party will be asking its voters:
In Dekalb County, GOP voters will be asked 6 questions + 2 “do you support the GOP” questions.
1) “Do you support the efforts of Georgia’s Governor to enable the State of Georgia and its citizens to opt out of the federal Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act?”
2)”Do you favor reform of US immigration laws without granting amnesty to any person already in our country illegally?”
3)”Do you support an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution so as to provide that the paramount right to life is vested in
each human being from the moment of conception until natural death?” Note that this would ban capital punishment…
4)”Do you support an amendment to the United States Constitution reading: ‘Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to all Members of Congress; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the
Members of Congress that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.’?” No because I can think of some laws that I would like to apply to Congress that I would NEVER consider for “regular” citizens, such as VERY strict disclosure requirements on who is paying for what. (Note that I wouldn’t limit it, as that would be limiting political speech. But I WOULD have VERY stringent sunshine laws.
5)”Do you believe the State of Georgia should more aggressively assert its rights under the 10th Amendment to the United States
Constitution, which reads ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.’?” No, because States don’t have rights – individuals do. Also note that “aggressively assert[ing]” its “rights” is what Georgia did in 1860, and that didn’t exactly turn out so well for us.
6)”Do you support the measure that would allow regions of the State of Georgia to vote on whether they want a one-cent sales tax
hike to pay for roads, transit and bridges in their own communities?” No, because to my knowledge the current proposal has the regions already set and counties either cannot opt out or have a very hard time doing so. In other words, If Albany, Terrell, and Lee counties were in a region and ALL of the projects to be paid for by the tax were in Lee and Dougherty, there would be no way for Terrell to not have to pay the tax.
