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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)

Faye McMillian
Deborah R. Watkins Bragg
Jordan Jackson
Dontavious S. Marshall
Kimberly Johnson
Brandi Myers
Brandon Lee Medina
Sherry Castelow Fletcher
Jacobo Alex Trejo
Amelia Jenson
Christopher John Jenson
Peyton Green
Mary S. Madge
Brandon Wayne Gause
Paul Logan Grubbs
Kenneth Jones
Kreason Turner
Ju’Ruy Reymund Smith
Ladaric Marquis Jones
Ariel Marie Bowens
Mabry -Grace Briggs
Benjamin Seth Heard
Brian Robert Warren
Shannon Tyniesha Jones
Valencia Scott
Scarlett Funderburke
Marion Danyelle Bruton
Callalisa Anne Strickland
Melissa Phillips Hines
Patricia Ann Peters
Nancy Ann Plumley
Tshawnbee Dione Price

CANCELLED VOTERS (30)

Carl Jackson Jones III
Tamesha Sherita Hines
Tina Renee Lambert
William Parrish Jr.
Robert Earl Howard, Jr.
Jeffrey David Tharpe
Angelia Joyce Ross
Gloria Teresa Cook
Fernando Galnares
Larry B. Wilson
Bobby Lue Perkins
Pauline Maxwell
Angel Kenshay Byrd
Anthony Joiner
Rita Lashawn Battle
Dontavious Tamichael Jones
Adrian Adam Rentz
Wanda Smith
Cierra Antoinette Bush
Sharonda L. Eaford
Atibal Avril
Clifford Shelton, Jr.
Willie Clifford Cooper, II
Cheryl Olivia Young
Dianna Barwick Cleveland
Jessie James Green, (Jr.)
Shekethe Diane Session
Lisa Carr
James E. Brock
Jerri W. Harrell

OUT OF COUNTY (23)

Virginia Sims Talley
China Baggling
Jermaine Herring
Arthur Jay Love
January Michelle love
Breawnna Victoria Ruth Haugen
Janelle McConnell McMillan
Starnecia Sharde Tigner
Shante’ Marie Sanson
Joann Cox
Matilda Bell Jackson
Tyrone Benton
Laquient Sentail Macklin, Jr.
Angelia Close
Roy R. Culverson
Ronnie Earl Culverson
Bobbie Lee Bufford
Laura Jean Copeland
Diane M. Taylor
Pamela Joy Rathel
Jo Ann Williams
Thomas Brian Nix
Anne Michelle Love-Ogden

NO PHOTO ID (3)

Tyler Harrell
Ladarius Moore
Albert Wimberly

VOTED ABSENTEE (2)

Alexis Anne Miller
Lynette Ann Baulkman