County Could Lose Polling Place

A plan to close Fairfield Plantation’s voting precinct following this year’s municipal elections has some residents and the area’s district commissioner speaking out. Carroll County Elections Superintendent Becky Deese says there are concerns over access to the gated-community’s polling place and that a consolidation into another area polling place would reduce election costs.

District-2 Commissioner Vickie Anderson says she cannot understand the reasoning for the proposed consolidation, citing no lodged complaints against the Fairfield precinct and she notes that inhibiting conditions at other area precincts led to the development of the Fairfield precinct six years ago. “Our job in government is to make it as easy as possible for voters to vote and when we remove the Fairfield precinct, we are making it more difficult for those people to vote,” she says. “We identified problems (at the previous polling site) and that’s why the Fairfield location was formed.”

The Fairfield precinct has just under 2800 active registered voters. Fairfield poll officials are reportedly protesting the closing, via letters to the Department Of Justice and the Georgia Secretary of State.