After a slow morning at the polls, more voters started turn out in north Fulton County around 3 p.m.
Some credited the scattered rain showers as to why turnout was low Tuesday morning, others said it was because this wasn’t a general election.
But that wasn’t the case for one precinct in Johns Creek. Heather Cooper, the manager for the polls at the Johns Creek Environmental Campus said the morning was slow, but then “it took off like a rocket” after 10 a.m.
457 voters had come through the precinct by 3 p.m. and Cooper said she had several first-time voters come out. The precinct didn’t experience any technical issues either.
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Aside from the statewide primary elections, voters in Johns Creek are weighing in on several state senate and house races.
For the senate, there will be someone new in the District 48 seat with incumbent David Shafer running for Lt. Governor. Republican Matt Reeves and Democrat Zahra Karinshak are vying for that seat.
In the House, Republican Alex B. Kaufman and Democrat Josh McLaurin are battling to succeed District 51 Rep. Wendell Willard, who is not seeking re-election. In District 50, Republicans Douglas Chanco and Kelly Stewart face Democrats Angelika Kausche and Gaurav Phadke in the race to succeed Rep. Brad Raffensperger, who is running for Secretary of State.
At Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church, voters came in steady all day, said manager James Bagwell. The precinct cleared the mark for 210 voters around 2:40 p.m.
“It was a little light this morning, but everything seems to be going well,” Bagwell said.
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Dexter Walker was one of those voters who cast their ballots at Mount Pisgah in Johns Creek. He went to the polls on Tuesday with gun control on his mind.
Last week, a Texas teenager shot and killed 10 people at a high school. On Monday, a Spalding County woman was shot in the parking lot of an elementary school.
“I’m kind of divided on (gun control),” Walker said. “I don’t think that everybody should be able to have access to guns but I don’t believe that we should try and take guns away from law-abiding citizens either. I believe in the 2nd Amendment… You can’t take guns away from everybody. That’s the Constitution.”
While being torn on gun control, Walker said he did like Casey Cagle in the governor's race. Cagle, a Republican, was endorsed by the National Rifle Association after vowing to "kill" a tax break for Delta when it broke ties with a pro-gun group.
“I’m a conservative and I like the things he stands for,” Walker said. “I’m with his policies on immigration, gun control – those are the two main things right now – and lower taxes here in Fulton County. I’d like to try and keep those low.”
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