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Low turnout reported for Public Service Commission election

Early Voting 2022. Early Voting sign outside of ACC Board of Elections
Angel Bhardwaj
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WUGA

An extremely low turnout is being reported so far for the off-year, summertime elections for the Public Service Commission.

The AJC reports about half a percent of registered voters had voted in nearly two and a half weeks of early voting so far, which equates to about 45,000 ballots cast out of 8.4 million registered voters in Georgia.

Early voting lasts until June 13. Election Day for the partisan primaries is June 17, followed by runoffs, if necessary, on July 15. The general election will be held Nov. 4.

The Public Service Commission sets the rates monopoly utilities can charge for electricity and gas. Two seats are up for election, and candidates must live in specific districts, while all Georgia voters can vote for both seats.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
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