Oconee County, GA Politics

I voted this morning and strongly urge you to do so as well, taking full advantage of the early voting period here in Oconee County. This is the location next to the courthouse in downtown Watkinsville, and there is a new location to vote early at the Oconee County Civic Center on Hog Mountain Road/State Route 53. The early voting period ends Friday afternoon with no early voting Monday followed by the traditional Tuesday election day at the various polling places scattered across the county.

Today Monday, June 16, 2008 is the last day to be registered to vote and then be able to vote in the Georgia Democratic or Republican primaries a month from tomorrow. Here is some interesting information and links sent to me on Facebook I believe (I used the Secretary of State link to make sure my dad had not been purged from the rolls): n order to vote in the July 15th Democratic (or Republican) Primary you must be registered to vote by Monday, June 16th. Check your registration online here : http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/polllocator/ Not registered? Need to change your address? No problem... Use our online voter registration application to fill out your form - http://www.registrationbyworkingassets.com/register/?api_key=tRhox1L4JG3wm2bipYNJH4tqkfc Just fill it out, print, sign and mail in! That easy. Make sure you take your Photo ID with you to vote if you're voting in person on July 15th. Voting ID info here - http://sos.georgia.gov/gaphotoid/default.htm Absentee Voting Inf...

Obviously I am not the most objective person to make this assessment, but I concur with Blake Aued's article here , but if the Oconee Democratic Committee is more concerned with bike rides and district member mapping matters, than say, ACTUAL CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE , then they have no hope to ever regain even a toehold on local political matters. The Republicans such as Jim Ivey and Melvin Davis are making things easier for Oconee County Democrats, but if no real candidates come forward soon, then the local Democrats can have all the book clubs and meetings without any real or tangible success. They need to have someone more active, serious and better organized than the last-minute and extremely poorly run campaign of their current chairperson against the current state legislator last time around.