Cobb voters approve $40 million in bonds for expanded park land

Voters in Cobb County overwhelmingly passed a referendum seeking approval of $40 million in bonds to buy land to expand the county public park system.

Residents supported the proposal by nearly 2-to-1.

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Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr signs in to vote at Cumberland United Methodist Church in Smyrna.

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The unofficial results are based on 176 of 177 voting precincts reporting in. Absentee ballots have been counted but not the provisional ballots, which are expected to be complete by Friday.

In other races, Democrat Alison Bartlett defeated Republican Ronald Younker for a full term representing central Cobb on the board of education. Younker defeated Bartlett in the September special election that was held after school board member Teresa Plenge stepped down earlier this year. As a result of Bartlett’s win Tuesday, Younker’s time on the board will be short.

Democrat David Morgan was elected to the school board representing southwest Cobb. Morgan’s wife, state Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan (D-Cobb) was re-elected on Tuesday.

Republicans Lynnda Crowder-Eagle and David Banks also won seats on the school board.

Two seats on the County Commission were filled: Republican Bob Ott will represent east Cobb, and Woody Thompson regained the seat representing southwest Cobb he lost four years ago. Thompson, a former Republican, switched parties and defeated embattled incumbent commissioner Annette Kesting in the primary.

In other contests, Kelli Wolk was elected county probate judge.

The following incumbents were re-elected: county Sheriff Neil Warren; Superior Court judges Dorothy A. Robinson and Tain Kell; and Chief Magistrate Frank Cox.

County Commission Chairman Sam Olens, a possible candidate for governor, was unopposed for a third term. Other uncontested races include: District Attorney Pat Head; Clerk of Superior Court Jay Stephenson; Tax Commissioner Gail Downing; Superior Court judges Adele Grubbs, S. Lark Ingram, Ken Nix, J. Stephen Schuster; State Court judges Melodie Clayton, Russell “Rusty” Carlisle, Irma B. Glover, Kathryn J. Tanksley, Toby Prodgers and Roland R. Castellanos; Clerk of State Court Diane Webb; Surveyor Donald Perryman; and Soil and Water Conservation District supervisors Donald Ayres and Alice Champagne.