Skip to main content

Sunday Voting for Some; Just Not For You

Sept. 17, 2014 
To whom it may concern: 

I find your response to Sen. Millar's voting location allegations to be very disturbing.   
It was reported by many sources that South DeKalb Mall was not the only location to have Sunday voting.  Rather, it was also available at the Memorial Drive Elections Office and Tucker Recreation Center.   
Now, you have sent out an email announcing that Early Voting is available for three locations.  And indeed, the first three locations on your list do include Tucker Recreation Center, but if we look closer, it says that Tucker Recreation is actually NOT available on Sunday.  It has early voting, but not after church on Sunday like the other locations will have and like was reported widespread in the media.

Please inform your elections supervisor and the CEO and whomever else might need to know, but Central DeKalb County Residents are getting very tired of the games that are played between the North and the South.  We do not wish to be a pawn and do not appreciate the fact that it now appears there could be large numbers of voters who could believe that Tucker Recreation has Sunday voting and when they show up to vote, they will learn that they were wrong and we were duped once again by political game players. 
This is not acceptable.   
Please tell me that someone will work to do whatever it takes to add Tucker Rec. to the list since you have already announced it and it would be very wrong to deny our area the chance to vote in an election that has a special ballot referendum to elect a commissioner after the last one resigned before the FBI could permanently remove her. 
I will publish this email and your response, if I receive one, to our group Facebook page called Save Tucker! (The Group).
Thanks,
xxxxx
Save Tucker From Lakeside City

 The DeKalb County Board of Registration & Elections has approved Early Voting locations in DeKalb County for the upcoming General and Special Elections.

In-person early voting for the Nov. 4 election will be as follows:

Central DeKalb: Voter Registration & Elections Office
Two Areas -- One Exclusively for Senior and Disabled Voters
4380 Memorial Drive, Decatur, GA
Monday through Friday, October 13 - 31, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 25, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday, October 26, 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM

Tucker Recreation Center
4898 LaVista Road, Tucker, GA
Monday through Friday, October 13 - 31, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 25, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

South DeKalb
The Gallery at South DeKalb Mall
2801 Candler Road, Decatur, GA
Monday through Friday, October 13 - 31, 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Saturday, October 25, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday, October 26, 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM

Chamblee Civic Center
3540 Broad Street, Chamblee, GA
Sunday, October 26, 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM
Monday through Friday, October 27 - 31, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Brookhaven City Hall
4362 Peachtree Road, NE, Brookhaven, GA
Monday through Friday, October 27 - 31, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Decatur
Clark Harrison Building
330 W. Ponce de Leon Avenue, Decatur, GA
Monday through Friday, October 27 - 31, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Berean Community Center
2440 Young Road, Stone Mountain, GA
Monday through Friday, October 27 - 31, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Voters who do not take advantage of Early Voting must go to their polling places on Tuesday, Nov. 4 to cast their ballots. 

 All early and absentee voting will end on Friday, Oct. 31.

If you have yet to register, you can do so by clicking here. 
The deadline is Monday, October 6. 

To find your polling place and see your sample ballot, go to My Voter Page at www.sos.state.ga.us. Applications and other information may be obtained at the website www.dekalbvotes.com or by calling the Voter Registration & Elections office at 404-298-4020.

Popular posts from this blog

Tweak us out of LaVista Hills

This is a letter shared with the "Dekalb Strong" group.  You can join the conversation at https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeKalbStrong . We didn't realize how easy tweaking was. “Tweak” and just like that, 2000 people are moved from one city proposal to another. (“LaVista Hills, Tucker border tweaked in Senate,” News, March 20). Our home is in Toco Hills on the southern edge of the proposed LaVista Hills and we’d like to be tweaked out of it.   North and north central DeKalb County residents have become pawns in the misguided ambitions of a few. With all the changes made by the Senate and House, it’s vital the feasibility of these proposals be revisited. The LaVista Hills boundaries have bled commercial property to the Tucker proposal and Brookhaven’s annexation of Executive Park. As reconfigured, LaVista Hills is almost entirely residential. Even including Toco Hills shopping center and Northlake mall, there appears to be insufficient commercial or ind...
Post a Comment
Read more

Welcome to Smoke Rise, Soon to be Tucker, GA

This could be the change that residents will see if Tucker 2015 is successful in getting its referendum nto a ballot and voters approve it.  The driving force behind the city of Tucker has been the leadership within the community known as "Smoke Rise, GA."  Smoke Rise residents currently have addresses that say "Stone Mountain, GA" and many of them worked hard in order to create a separate identity for themselves, petitioning the U.S. Post Office to change their official name to "Smoke Rise."  While the Post Office did not agree to change the official name, they did agree to allow "Smoke Rise" as a recognized alternative to "Stone Mountain" that could be used interchangeably as long as it accompanied their 30087 zip code. It is important to note that these residents did not ask the Post Office to recognize their use of "Tucker" as an acceptable alternative.  They asked to be called "Smoke Rise." It appears t...
Post a Comment
Read more

DeKalb County School Board Member's Emails Show Support for Annexation

Here are just a few highlights of this investigative piece that was reported by Jeff Chirico, CBS Atlanta. Marshall Orson, a seated board member in DeKalb County, has to answer to some angry parents about his emails with supporters for "Together in Atlanta," a group pushing for annexation into the city of Atlanta. The annexation would take a DeKalb icon, the Druid Hills High School, and at least two elementary schools into the city limits of Atlanta, while still the residents would still technically reside in DeKalb County.  The Fernbank Science Center and Museum, Callenwalde Fine Arts Center and other parts of DeKalb County would also become new residents of "Atlanta in DeKalb."   State Rep. Karla Drenner (D - Avondale Estates) says she is shocked to learn that a school board member would seemingly favor something that could 'decimate' the school system. Annexation opponent Dawn Forman said Orson, as an elected board member, should be opposed t...
Post a Comment
Read more