Cherokee County · Georgia

Ballot measures

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Georgia statewide questions

Georgia statewide · HR 32

Amendment 1 · Conservation-use property: maximum eligible acreage

Who votes: All eligible Georgia voters.

Increase the acreage cap for one owner’s qualifying agricultural or timber land under conservation-use assessment from 2,000 to 4,000 acres. The resolution retains the ten-year conservation-use covenant and tax-recapture conditions.

YES Approve the increase to 4,000 acres.

NO Keep the constitutional cap at 2,000 acres.

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Shall the Constitution of Georgia, for the purpose of protecting family farmland, be amended so as to increase the maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property from 2,000 acres to 4,000 acres?

Official ballot PDF or question source

Checked 2026-09-27

Georgia statewide · HR 251

Amendment 2 · Nonpartisan elections for probate judges

Who votes: All eligible Georgia voters.

Require all Georgia probate court judges to be elected on a nonpartisan basis. This concerns how those judges are elected.

YES Require nonpartisan elections for all probate judges.

NO Leave the Constitution unchanged by this proposal.

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Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to require that all probate court judges be elected in nonpartisan elections?

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Checked 2026-09-27

Georgia statewide · HR 1243

Amendment 3 · Dedicated fund for emergency 9-1-1 systems

Who votes: All eligible Georgia voters.

Authorize the General Assembly to dedicate specified existing revenues, including revenues reallocated by law, to a fund reserved for expanding, maintaining and operating emergency 9-1-1 systems. Money in the fund would carry forward instead of lapsing.

YES Authorize the dedicated, nonlapsing 9-1-1 fund.

NO Do not add this constitutional authority.

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Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to authorize the General Assembly to dedicate certain existing revenues, including revenues reallocated by law, to a nonlapsing fund to be used exclusively for the expansion, maintenance, and operation of emergency 9-1-1 systems in this state?

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Checked 2026-09-27

County & city questions

A question may apply countywide, within one city, or outside a city. Your mailing address’s city name alone is not enough to decide.

Cherokee County School District · SB 407

School-tax homestead exemption through 2031

Who votes: Eligible voters in the Cherokee County School District.

For tax years 2027–2031, exempt the amount by which a qualifying homestead’s assessed value exceeds an adjusted base-year value. The base can rise by no more than 4% annually. This covers Cherokee school taxes, excluding school bond debt; separate county and city taxes are unaffected.

YES Approve the proposed school-tax exemption for qualifying homesteads.

NO Reject this proposed exemption.

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SB 407 directs a November 3, 2026 referendum. Read section 3 of the enacted bill for the complete question and section 1 for eligibility and application conditions.

Official ballot PDF or question source

Checked 2026-09-11

Make sense of local tax language

SPLOST means a special purpose local option sales tax. E-SPLOST funds education capital purposes; TSPLOST is for transportation. A sales tax is different from a property tax or homestead exemption. Read each question’s rate, duration, spending limits, projects and any borrowing authority.

Approval thresholds and effects depend on the kind of question. Florida’s amendment rules do not apply to a Georgia ballot.