After only 366 Bulloch County residents – less than 1% of the county’s more than 55,000 registered voters – voted early or absentee in the past three weeks, Tuesday, June 17, is Election Day in Georgia’s special Public Service Commission primary. All 16 of the county’s traditional voting precincts will be open 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.

Those advance voters included 335 voters who cast electronic ballots in-person in 14 weekdays and two Saturdays, plus 31 who returned absentee ballots mailed to them at their request.

The Republican ballot offers voters a choice between incumbent Timothy Guy Echols, from Jackson County, and challenger Lee Muns, a project manager from Columbia County, for the District 2 PSC seat, but only one candidate, incumbent Terrell Fitz Johnson Sr. of Fulton County, for the District 3 seat.

In contrast, the Democratic ballot offers three challenger candidates for the District 3 seat – Peter Jacob Hubbard, a clean energy advocate from DeKalb County; Robert Leslie Jones, a technology advisor from DeKalb County; and Keisha Sean Waites, a former state legislator from Fulton County. A fourth Democrat, Daniel Blackman, still appears on the ballot but was disqualified by a court. Democrats have only one candidate for the District 2 seat, Alicia Monique Johnson, a consultant from Chatham County.