Through Monday, 830 voters who reside in Statesboro City Council District 2 had cast early or absentee ballots in the ongoing, overall Nov. 3 election that includes that district's three-candidate special election for its vacant council seat. With four days of early voting and next Tuesday's 12-hour traditional Election Day remaining, that was a roughly 17% turnout so far among the 4,865 "active" registered voters in Council District 2, where candidates Loletta Donaldson-Elliott, Maleek Jones and Kathleen Keehner are vying for the seat. However, as Bulloch County Election Supervisor Shontay Jones cautions, both in regard to the Statesboro council seat and concerning a similar breakout of voter participation from Bulloch County Commission District 1, the turnout is not specific to those local contests. "It just means that when I pulled those reports (on voter turnout) that those people were in those districts, and on their ballot those contests would have been available," she said. "It doesn't mean, you know, they necessarily voted in them, but the contests would have been there." After 10 weekdays and two Saturdays of in-person early voting, Statesboro Council District 2 voter participation was actually trailing slightly behind the early voter turnout, percentage-wise, in Bulloch County overall. As of 5 p.m. Monday, the Bulloch County total was 9,418 voters, including 8,893 who had voted early in-person and 525 whose absentee ballots had been accepted at the county election…
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