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Low turnout in Bulloch
Only 17 percent cast ballots
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Carol Jones, right, Adrianne McCollar, and Nicole Mills, background, campaign for their favorite candidates across the street from the William James Complex Tuesday.
With only two contested local races on the ballot Tuesday, it was a slow day for Bulloch County poll workers, but a fast in and out for voters casting their ballots. When the votes were totaled at the Bulloch County Courthouse, the final numbers showed how slow it was: only 5,765 people cast ballots - 17.6 percent of registered voters. "[The turnout] has been less than what we expected," said Joyce Davis, a poll officer at the Statesboro Primitive Baptist Church precinct at noon on Tuesday.
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