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Sharber Road Advertisement for Bids 7.27.2023

“The Bainbridge-Decatur County Building Department is now offering contractors and homeowners the opportunity to apply for permits through our new online portal. We hope this new option will make the permitting process more convenient for both contractors and homeowners. You can register and apply for a permit by clicking this link: https://tinyurl.com/vpdpems

For a quick tutorial on how to apply for permits using the online portal system, please click this link: https://tinyurl.com/wx7vfzn

 

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ATTENTION: TAXPAYERS

Decatur County residents who suffered hurricane damage to buildings, are encouraged to file a Property Tax Return with the Tax Assessor’s Office between JANUARY 1 and APRIL 1. Included with the Return should be pictures, insurance claims, contractor estimates, etc.

A representative from the Tax Assessor’s Office will be visiting all properties in due time, but filing a tax return will guarantee your property will be addressed for the 2019 Digest year.

If you have any further questions, please contact the Tax Assessor’s Office at 229-248-3008.

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1,820 voter registrations canceled in Decatur County as part of list maintenance

As part of the legal mandate to clean up the state’s voter rolls, 1,820 voter registrations in Decatur County were recently canceled by the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office.

Statewide, 591,548 voter registrations were canceled on Friday, July 28, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office.

If a voter was canceled, that means they had not voted, updated their voter registration information, filed a change of name or address, signed a petition or responded to attempts to confirm their last known address for at least the past three years. Basically, none of the voters have had any contact with local election officials or the state since at least Sept. 16,2014, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office.

If a voter has been canceled, they must re-register to vote. Decatur County now has approximately 15,900 active and inactive registered voters.

If a voter wants to check on their status, they may go to the Georgia Secretary of State’s My Voter Page website or call the Decatur County Board of Elections and Registration at (229) 243-2087.

The cancellations of the voter registrations are separate from the 383,400 confirmation notices mailed out several weeks ago statewide. In Decatur County, 958 of those confirmation notices were sent out.

These confirmation notices are part of the national change of address process under Georgia law that requires the Georgia Secretary of State to compare change of address information supplied by the U.S. Postal Service with electors list.

If a voter doesn’t respond within 30 days with either confirming their address or indicating a new one, that voter may be moved to an “inactive” status. By a voter being “inactive,” it starts the clock ticking on the years-long process of potentially being canceled.

Voters listed as “inactive” are still registered to vote and may vote at any time. Once an inactive” voter contacts an elections office with a change on their voter registration, signs a petition or votes, they become “active” again.

Furthermore, these actions are separate from a federal commission created by President Donald Trump that has requested voter information from every state.

The deadline to register to vote for the upcoming countywide TSPLOST and municipal elections in Decatur County is Tuesday, Oct. 10.

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PROVISIONAL BALLOTS

Provisional ballot voters may go to the Georgia Secretary of State’s  website: http://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/check_your_provisional_ballot_status_for_november_6_2018_election

Or call the hotline at 470-240-5061 to find out your ballot’s status.

Voters who cast provisional ballots that were rejected for the Nov. 6, 2018, in Decatur County are the following:

Not Registered(32)

  1. Faye McMillian
  2. Deborah R. Watkins Bragg
  3. Jordan Jackson
  4. Dontavious S. Marshall
  5. Kimberly Johnson
  6. Brandi Myers
  7. Brandon Lee Medina
  8. Sherry Castelow Fletcher
  9. Jacobo Alex Trejo
  10. Amelia Jenson
  11. Christopher John Jenson
  12. Peyton Green
  13. Mary S. Madge
  14. Brandon Wayne Gause
  15. Paul Logan Grubbs
  16. Kenneth Jones
  17. Kreason Turner
  18. Ju’Ruy Reymund Smith
  19. Ladaric Marquis Jones
  20. Ariel Marie Bowens
  21. Mabry -Grace Briggs
  22. Benjamin Seth Heard
  23. Brian Robert Warren
  24. Shannon Tyniesha Jones
  25. Valencia Scott
  26. Scarlett Funderburke
  27. Marion Danyelle Bruton
  28. Callalisa Anne Strickland
  29. Melissa Phillips Hines
  30. Patricia Ann Peters
  31. Nancy Ann Plumley
  32. Tshawnbee Dione Price

   CANCELLED VOTERS (30)

  1.  Carl Jackson Jones III
  2.   Tamesha Sherita Hines
  3.   Tina Renee Lambert
  4.   William Parrish Jr.
  5.   Robert Earl Howard, Jr.
  6.   Jeffrey David Tharpe
  7.   Angelia Joyce Ross
  8.   Gloria Teresa Cook
  9.   Fernando Galnares
  10.   Larry B. Wilson
  11.   Bobby Lue Perkins
  12.   Pauline Maxwell
  13.   Angel Kenshay Byrd
  14.   Anthony Joiner
  15.   Rita Lashawn Battle
  16.   Dontavious Tamichael Jones
  17.   Adrian Adam Rentz
  18.   Wanda Smith
  19.   Cierra Antoinette Bush
  20.   Sharonda L. Eaford
  21.   Atibal Avril
  22.   Clifford Shelton, Jr.
  23.   Willie Clifford Cooper, II
  24.   Cheryl Olivia Young
  25.   Dianna Barwick Cleveland
  26.   Jessie James Green, (Jr.)
  27.   Shekethe Diane Session
  28.   Lisa Carr
  29.   James E. Brock
  30.   Jerri W. Harrell

OUT OF COUNTY (23)

  1. Virginia Sims Talley
  2. China Baggling
  3. Jermaine Herring
  4. Arthur Jay Love
  5. January Michelle love
  6. Breawnna Victoria Ruth Haugen
  7. Janelle McConnell McMillan
  8. Starnecia Sharde Tigner
  9. Shante’ Marie Sanson
  10. Joann Cox
  11. Matilda Bell Jackson
  12. Tyrone Benton
  13. Laquient Sentail Macklin, Jr.
  14. Angelia Close
  15. Roy R. Culverson
  16. Ronnie Earl Culverson
  17. Bobbie Lee Bufford
  18. Laura Jean Copeland
  19. Diane M. Taylor
  20. Pamela Joy Rathel
  21. Jo Ann Williams
  22. Thomas Brian Nix
  23. Anne Michelle Love-Ogden

NO PHOTO ID (3)

  1. Tyler Harrell
  2. Ladarius Moore
  3. Albert Wimberly

VOTED ABSENTEE (2)

  1. Alexis Anne Miller
  2. Lynette Ann Baulkman