Augusta, GA
Georgia 2022 primary, Augusta area elections: Here’s how to vote
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The Might 24 main is nearing, and the ramifications of Tuesday’s vote will form the state’s political taking part in area for the crucial November midterm, the place management of the governor’s workplace and probably the U.S. Senate hangs within the steadiness.
This yr would be the first main statewide election since 2020, which was probably the most well-attended vote within the state’s historical past. And if early voting is any indication, this yr’s election may see much more turnout.
Via Wednesday, Might 19, over 565,000 individuals had early voted in Georgia, based on the Secretary of State’s workplace – a 153% improve from the identical level within the early voting interval within the 2018 main election and a 189% improve in the identical level within the early voting interval within the 2020 main election.
Early voting ended Friday. After that, voters should solid ballots on Election Day or by returning a accomplished absentee poll. The deadline to request absentee ballots has handed.
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In-person voting
Polling locations across the state will open at 7 a.m. Tuesday and shut at 7 p.m. If voters are in line by 7 p.m., they will keep till they solid their poll.
Not like early voting, in-person voting on Election Day should be completed at an assigned polling place. Voters can discover their polling place at mvp.sos.ga.gov.
Examine your registration standing:Secretary of State’s MyVoterPage
Due to Georgia’s open main guidelines, voters of any social gathering affiliation are allowed to take no matter poll they need. Democrats can vote on the Republican poll and vice versa. Nonetheless, if a race goes to a runoff, voters will solely be capable to vote on the runoff races on the poll they took initially.
A number of issues are prohibited on the polls. Underneath Georgia regulation, it’s unlawful to hold firearms inside 150 toes of a polling place, or, if a line extends out the door of the polling place, inside 150 toes of the top of the road.
Deliver a state ID to vote
These planning to solid an in-person poll should current a photograph ID on the polling place.
Legitimate types of identification embody a Georgia driver’s license — even whether it is expired — a passport, navy photograph ID, an ID from any federal or state physique of presidency, a authorities worker photograph ID, or tribal photograph ID.
Voters can not put on clothes selling any political candidates or political slogans, together with facemasks.
Voters who present as much as polling locations however don’t meet all the necessities can request a provisional poll. Provisional voters should current a photograph ID to the county registrar’s workplace inside three days of the election to have their ballots counted.
Easy methods to get a provisional poll
If a voter is advised by a ballot employee their eligibility can’t be decided, the voter has a proper to request a provisional poll.
If a voter reveals as much as the incorrect precinct, they will both go to the right precinct or, whether it is after 5 p.m., solid a provisional poll on the incorrect precinct.
Any votes solid by a provisional poll within the incorrect precinct is not going to be counted until it’s solid between 5 p.m and seven p.m. In any other case, you may be instructed to go to the right precinct.
Easy methods to return an absentee poll
Georgia’s 2021 voting reforms, broadly often called SB 202, altered the time to request absentee ballots. The request interval opened March 7 and closed Might 13.
There’s no approach to request an absentee poll at this level, however for many who have but to return their absentee poll, there are a few choices. Ballots will not be accepted after polls shut on election day.
Voters also can flip within the accomplished poll earlier than 7 p.m. on election day. In Richmond County, the Board of Election is at 535 Telfair St. Suite 500. In Columbia County, it’s at 500 Faircloth Drive, Constructing E, in Evans.
If a voter decides they’d quite vote in individual as an alternative of casting their not-yet-returned absentee poll, they have to carry the absentee poll to the polls and have an elections official spoil it earlier than casting an in-person poll.
Voters can verify the standing of absentee ballots at mvp.sos.ga.gov. If a voter has mailed a accomplished poll, however it has not but been accepted, voters can seem in individual to cancel the poll and solid their vote in individual on Election Day.
Can I nonetheless use poll drop bins?
Absentee poll drop bins can not be used on election day.
The drop bins have been formally codified by 2021’s SB 202 elections invoice, however it additionally restricted their use to early voting, which ended Friday.
The drop bins have been initially an emergency measure put into place in 2020 for many who didn’t need to danger publicity to COVID by voting in individual or danger their poll arriving late within the mail.
Beforehand, the bins have been required to be on authorities property with 24/7 digital camera surveillance. They by no means closed, and voters may drop off ballots at any time.
Will Peebles is the enterprise reporter for Savannah Morning Information. He might be reached at wpeebles@gannett.com and @willpeeblessmn on Twitter.
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Augusta, GA
Deadly accident shuts down lanes on Deans Bridge Road
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – One person has died after a car crash on Deans Bridge Road on Saturday night, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Richmond County dispatchers said the call came in at 9:01 p.m. of a single-car accident with five passengers.
The driver was transported to a local hospital and later died due to their injuries, according to authorities.
The condition of the other passengers remains unknown.
The southbound lanes were shut down as of 10:15 p.m.
Drivers are encouraged to find an alternate route.
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Augusta, GA
The Dawg Days of summer hit the Junior Players with two (maybe) future UGA players leading
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Mason Howell birdies his last two holes, Hamilton Coleman posts the tournament’s low score on their way to the final group for Sunday’s final round at Players Stadium Course.
TPC Sawgrass, AJGA host the Junior Players Championship for the 18th year
The 18th Junior Players Championship is at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. It has become a Labor Day Weekend tradition on the First Coast.
One of the players in the final threesome of the 18th Junior Players Championship on Sunday has already decided to play golf at the University of Georgia — despite having two more years until his high school class graduates.
The other, with the same amount of time left in junior golf, still has an open mind. But he’d be bucking family tradition if he didn’t become a Bulldog.
Either way, they have more immediate issues at hand: battling it out in the final threesome in the final round of the Junior Players Championship, at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Mason Howell of Thomasville, Ga., birdied the hardest par-3 and the hardest par-5 holes on the course to polish off a 70 on Saturday, and at 5-under-par 139 has a one-shot lead over Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., (68, the tournament’s low round for the first two days), who birdied No. 17 and then made a gutsy par at the last to finish at 4-under.
Logan Reilly of Lovettsville, Va. (72), who held a share of the 18-hole lead, is in third at 3-under, Luke Colton of Frisco, Texas (72) is fourth at 2-under and Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif. (71) is fifth at 1-under.
They are the only players who have broken par for the first 36 holes.
Reilly earned his spot in the final three some when he rallied from a stretch of three bogeys in four holes to birdie Nos. 8 and 9.
First Coast players lagging behind
After Miles Russell became the first resident of the First Coast to win the Junior Players last year — with Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach finishing second and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island in a tie for sixth — it will take an extraordinary final round for any of them to reach the top 10, much less contend.
Junior Players leaderboard
Junior Players final-round groups, tee times
Dunham (75) and Jackson Byrd of St. Simons Island, Ga., (73) are tied for 18th at 3-over. Dunham made only one birdie but it was at his final hole, the par-5 ninth.
Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville had a wild ride over the Stadium Course, signing for a card that contained four pars, seven birdies, five bogeys and two double bogeys. It added up to a 74 and he’s tied for 31st at 5-over.
Russell got his score to even par through 13 holes and was only four off the lead at the time. But he bogeyed four of his last five holes and shot 76. He’s tied for 34th at 6-under with Mawhinney (77).
Ambrose Kinnare of St. Augustine (83) is tied for 68th at 15-over.
Junior Players leaders putt, scramble well
Both of the leaders said the course takes a mental toll on players, especially off the tee.
“The greens are in really good shape but you have to play really smart to get there,” said Howell, who hasn’t made a college decision yet but is from a Bulldog family — both his parents graduated from UGA. “If you have one lapse you’re in trouble. You can’t just walk up to a tee and whack at it.”
Coleman agreed with the sight lines off the Stadium Course tees.
“They are just so demanding,” he said. “There is not a breather hole off the tee. Every tee shot, you’re kind of stressing. Once you’re in the fairway and in the right position, you can kind of attack.”
Howell, Coleman get hot at different times
Howell is 14th on the AJGA Rolex Rankings and has five top-10 finishes this year in AGJA or national junior events, including a tie for fifth in the Western Junior.
He was 1-over for his first 10 holes after starting his round at the par-4 10th, then dropped birdie putts of 15 feet at No. 2 and 20 feet at No. 5. Howell capped his day when he drilled a 4-iron from 211 yards out to set up a 35-foot birdie putt at the par-3 eighth, then pitched onto the green of the par-5 ninth hole in three, and made a 3-footer.
Coleman, who verbally committed to Georgia last week, is 91st on the Rolex Rankings. He bounced back from a bogey at No. 2 with short birdie putts at Nos. 3, 4, 7 and 9, a stretch highlighted by a 6-iron against the wind from 176 yards out to within inches of the hole at the seventh.
Coleman birdied the 13th hole on a 15-foot putt at No. 13 and then chipped in from the right-front of the 14th green for birdie, negotiating a difficult angle to the front-left pin.
He almost holed out another short-game shot at the last. Coleman pushed his drive right and had to punch out from the trees. The ball rolled onto and over the green, settling into the left bunker. His sand shot tickled the edge of the hole before rolling 8 feet away, but he made the comebacker for par.
“I scrambled well, definitely,” Coleman said. “My irons have been really solid all week. I just need to tighten up the driver a little bit tomorrow.”
Howell, Coleman have played often
As South Georgia residents, Howell and Coleman know each other well and have played numerous times with and against each other and paired up for a practice round earlier in the week.
“He’s always fun to play with,” Coleman said. “Every time we play together we have fun.”
They also have a good track record on the First Coast. Howell is in his first Junior Players but he won the Billy Horschel Junior Championship on Oct. 5, 2023. Coleman tied for 18th in last year’s Junior Players and tied for third in the Horschel Junior Championship (which is played under a Stableford format), one point out of a playoff between Howell and Clark Van Gaalen.
Augusta, GA
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