Clayton County residents to vote for commission, schools leader Tuesday

Clayton County residents will vote on Tuesday for a commissioner and a school board member. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

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Clayton County residents will vote on Tuesday for a commissioner and a school board member. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Clayton County residents will choose new members of the boards of commissioners and education in a special election Tuesday.

Ten people are competing to represent District 1 on the Clayton County Commission, while two are vying to serve the school system from District 8.

Candidates for the commission seat are Alieka Anderson, Jae S. Brown, Shegale Crute Thurmond, Regina Deloach and Hackwin L. Devoe. The others are Debra Dozier-King, Junior “JJ” Jackson, Thomas Pough, Alaina Reaves and Ernest W. Strozier.

Joy Tellis Cooper and Arvis Walker are competing for the District 8 school board position

All are Democrats in the heavily Democratic-leaning south metro Atlanta community. There are no Republican candidates.

If no candidate gets more than 50% of the ballots, a runoff between the top two vote-getters has been set for Oct. 19.