ROBERTSDALE, Ala. (WKRG) — Election supplies have arrived, and inspectors for all of the polling places in Baldwin County are making final preparations for Tuesday’s runoff elections.
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“Provisional ballot boxes, the cell phones, the hotspots for the internet connections,” said Baldwin County Probate Judge Harry D’Olive.
Voting machines will be delivered Friday to all 63 precincts in Baldwin County where two local races of interest will be on the ballot: Joe Freeman versus Frances Holk Jones for the District 95 House seat, and Brett Gaar and John Tater Harris for the District 4 county commission seat.
D’Olive said his office has been busy since the primary election last month, preparing for the June 16th runoff. “It’s just hard to get the ballots printed; statewide you are looking at about 4 million ballots, thumb drives for our tabulators have to be programmed and sent to us, the ballots have to be delivered.”
Baldwin County has 210 thousand registered voters, according to the Alabama Secretary of State’s office, but D’Olive predicts only 8 to 10 percent will show up for the runoff. Voter turnout is a continuing frustration.
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“Make these decisions of who is going to be in office for the next few years and don’t let it be made by just a handful of people.”
The general election in November will be the last of five elections scheduled in Baldwin County this year. After the primary in May, there is Tuesday’s runoff, a referendum vote on zoning of a proposed solar project in Stockton is set for June 30, and the special congressional election in August…