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Reply Kirk Shook, Ken Davis, Fran Leathers (Lee Becker) In voting for the Jan. 5 runoff, fewer than one in four of the 23,565 Oconee County voters who cast a ballot did so on election day, according to the official election results certified by the Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration early Tuesday evening. Nearly six in 10 of the voters participated in early in-person voting, and nearly two in 10 voted by absentee ballot. Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue got 68.9 percent of the overall vote in the county on Jan. 5, and eventual statewide winner Democrat John Ossoff received 31....

Reply Board of Elections and Registration 12/28/2020 (Lee Becker) The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration on Monday unanimously rejected a challenge by Oconee County resident Patricia Daugherty on behalf of Houston, Texas, based True The Vote of the eligibility of 1,450 Oconee County voters to participate in the Jan. 5 runoff election. The motion passed by the Board said there was no probable cause of a violation of Georgia law that would render the voters ineligible to cast a ballot. Kirk Shook, the Republican Party representative on the Board, made the motion to reject the cha...

Reply Daugherty (Lee Becker) The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration is scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. on Monday to respond to a challenge from Patricia Daughertry, 5041 Price Mill Road, west of Bishop, to the eligibility of more than 100 Oconee County registered voters to participate in the Jan. 5 runoff election. Daugherty, who is active in Conservative Republican Woman of Northeast Georgia and challenged Sen. Bill Cowsert in the Republican primary in 2016, submitted a list of voters that she said "appear" to have moved out of the county. Daugherty cites "Available data from the ...

Reply Department of Public Health Data (Lee Becker) The Northeast Health District added 374 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, 361 of them confirmed via molecular tests and 13 of them the product of rapid, antigen tests, as well as one of the two deaths from the disease reported in the state. The death was of a 79-year-old female in Barrow County without a known chronic condition. The listing followed a death in the county in Saturday's Daily Status Report and was the 63rd in the county attributed to the disease. The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the District climbed just slightl...

Reply Department of Public Health, Georgia Hospital Association Data (Lee Becker) With the listing of 298 new cases of COVID-19 in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Saturday, the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the Northeast Health District increased to 380.9, up just slightly from the 379.4 average of Friday. The 10-county Northeast Health District also added three deaths, including one in Clarke County, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the District increased to 1.7 on Saturday from 1.3 on Friday. The Clarke County deaths was of a woman ag...