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DEL.ICIO.USValet parking at this Forsyth polling place
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Poll manager Larry Nelson is hoping for good voter turnout out today.
Though election officials expected about 20 percent of the voters to come out for the primary election, Nelson was hoping to see at least 30 percent of the 3,300 people registered to vote at Grace Chapel Church of Christ in Forsyth County.
“If we get them in two-by-two, like Noah’s Ark,” Nelson said, “that’s pretty good.”
Grace Chapel, outside the exclusive Polo Fields, offers an amenity not usually available to voters — valet parking — but no one had used the service by 10 a.m.
The only problem so far was a couple campaigning too close to the building. Judy and Jim Harrell stood at the end of the driveway in front of a long row of campaign signs waving to voters. Jim Harrell is one of three Republicans vying for the district three Forsyth County commission seat.
Nelson asked them to step outside the 150-foot buffer Georgia law requires around polling places.
Jim Harrell had been working since 5 a.m. repositioning his campaign signs that were blocked by others.
“It was so rude,” his wife, Judy, said. “But, it’s sign wars and we’re used to it.”
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