BLAIRVILLE, Ga. – UPDATE: Election qualifying ended at noon today (Friday, March 9) across Georgia counties and the ballot for the May 22 primary election in Union County appears set.

Three seats on the Union County Board of Education (BOE) will essentially be decided in the primary. In the BOE District 2 race, Joan Anderson will challenge incumbent Tony Hunter in the Republican primary.

For the BOE District 4 post, William McQuillan and John T. Strickland will oppose incumbent Keith Potts in the Republican primary.

In the BOE District 5 election, incumbent Patrick White will run unopposed in the Republican primary.

In all three BOE races, no one qualified to run on the Democrat ballot in the May primary election.

The only other county-level race this year is for the non-partisan post of Georgia Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor for Union County. Jennifer Logan qualified this week to run for this seat, which will be on the general election ballot in November.

 

On the state level, the ballot in Union for the May 22 primary election will also see Republican incumbent Matt Gurtler defend his post of Georgia House of Representatives District 8 post against Blairsville resident and fellow Republican Dr. Mickey Cummings. Both Gurtler and Cummings qualified Monday for the May primary election.

 

The state gubernatorial race has taken shape as well. Seven Republicans and two Democrats qualified for to run for governor in their parties’ respective primaries. Republican state Senator Hunter Hill, of Atlanta, and Democratic  state Representative Stacey Evans, of Ringgold, Georgia, both qualified Monday to run for governor.

On Tuesday, Republican and current Lieutenant Governor L.S. (Casey) Cagle and Democratic state Representative Stacey Abrams, both of Atlanta, joined Hill and Evans in their parties’ respective gubernatorial primaries.

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, of Athens, and tech businessman Clay Tippins, of Atlanta, both qualified Wednesday on the Republican primary ballot.

On Friday, restaurateur Eddie Hayes, author Marc Urbach, of Atlanta, and state Senator Michael Williams, of Cumming, Georgia, all qualified to run on the Republican primary ballot. There is no incumbent in this year’s race for governor as current Governor Nathan Deal has reached his term limit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federally, Republican incumbent Doug Collins qualified Monday for U.S. House of Representatives District 9 post as did fellow Gainesville, Georgia, resident Josh McCall on the Democratic ballot. On Tuesday, Democrat Dave Cooper, of Clayton, Georgia, also qualified to face McCall in the Democratic primary.

 

The deadline for voter registration for the May 22 primary is April 23.

BLAIRSVILLE, Ga. – UPDATE:  As of Monday, March 5, only two candidates have qualified for county-level primary elections in Union County to be held in May.

Republicans William McQuillan and Keith Potts both qualified Monday in the Board of Education (BOE) District 4 race. Potts enters the election as the incumbent for the BOE District 4 post. Thus far, no Democratic candidates have qualified for the BOE District 4 race.

Overall, no other candidates have qualified for the two county other races appearing on the May 22 ballot – BOE District 2 and District 5.

BLAIRSVILLE, Ga. – According to Libby Stevens, chairwoman of the Board of Elections, qualifying for four elected positions in Union County will begin Monday, March 5, at 9 a.m.

Of those four positions, three district seats on Board of Education are on the ballot in this spring’s primary election, and the county soil and water conservation post will be decided in the fall general election. Qualifying for all four seats, however, will begin Monday.

Stevens stated Districts 2, 4 and 5 on the Board of Education (BOE) will be on the ballot in the primary held May 22, 2018. The qualifying fee for each of the three BOE seats is $108.

No qualifying fee is mandated for the soil and water post, but a petition with the names of 25 registered voters is required

The Board of Elections is supervising the qualifying for all four elected seats, and anyone interested can visit the registrar’s office of the Union County Courthouse during the hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, March 5, through Thursday, March 8, and 9 a.m. to noon Friday, March 9, at which time the qualifying period officially ends.

 

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