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DEL.ICIO.USA change in voting location in Canton but no big problems
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There was a little confusion this morning at two polling places in Canton. Voters who had been going to the fire station were to be sent to the school down the road. But which school, some voters wondered.
Voters who had voted in the past at the fire house were to go to Freedom Middle School, which happens to be next door to, and shares an entrance with, Liberty Elementary School.
So poll workers had to divert some of those stray voters.
Aside for the slight confusion, there was a steady stream of voters coming in before work and a new system of looking up names on a computer, instead of on paper lists, made things move quicker.
Joel May, a 25-year-old attorney from Canton, voted in the GOP primary for Gov. Sonny Perdue. The governor, May said, has “done a good job and I know him personally.” May especially liked Perdue’s ethics reforms but he hoped the governor would focus more in a second term on immigration legislation and education, especially reducing class size.
With only token primary opposition to Perdue on the Republican ballot, the top attention-getter in the GOP primary was for the office of lieutenant governor.
In that race, May said he voted for state Sen. Casey Cagle (R-Gainesville) instead of former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed because “I really, really, really, really don’t like Ralph Reed.” May, who worked with the state GOP when Reed was head of the Georgia Republican party, described Reed as “pompous and arrogant.”
May also thought Cagle was better qualified for lieutenant governor because one of the duties of that office is to run the Senate during the annual Legislative session. Cagle has been in the Senate 12 years while “Ralph Reed’s never been there,” May observed.
On the other side of the Cagle-Reed debate. Riley McFetridge, a 64-year-old retired Navy pilot, prefers Reed.
“I like his Christian values. I like everything he stands for. I don’t trust Cagle,” McFetridge said.
McFetridge also approves of the job Perdue has done but, like May, he hopes the governor will do more in a second term to improve education in Georgia.
“He needs to nail down education,” McFetridge said of Perdue. “I want the local boards to have more say over the money.”
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