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Douglas County voting snapshot

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November 3, 2026 · Douglas County

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New registration deadlineOCT 5For the November electionRequest a mailed ballotOCT 23County must receive your applicationElection DayNOV 37 a.m.–7 p.m. EasternOffices in county guide25Your ballot depends on your address

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How to vote

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  • By mail

    Apply early, follow the ID and signature instructions, and track your ballot. A postmark alone is not enough.

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  • Advance voting

    Use a designated site in your county.

    OCT 13–30
    October 13–30. County location and daily-hour details are awaiting a dated November schedule; the state voting period is confirmed.

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  • Election Day

    Use your assigned polling place. If you are in line at closing time, stay in line.

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1Your polling information

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2Important deadlines

  1. New registrationOctober 5
  2. Mailed-ballot requestOctober 23 · Received by county
  3. Advance votingOCT 13–30

    October 13–30. County location and daily-hour details are awaiting a dated November schedule; the state voting period is confirmed.

  4. Election DayNovember 3 · 7 a.m.–7 p.m. Eastern
  5. Domestic mail ballot receivedNovember 3 · 7 p.m.

A general-election runoff, if required, is December 1. Check your county’s separate voting schedule.

All dates & registration details

3Districts & precincts

Your district numbers will appear here after address lookup. Match the office as well as the number.

We do not infer a precinct change or a new polling location from a district number.

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4Your ballot at a glance

Federal and state offices first, then courts, local offices and school board.

Federal offices3 offices

U.S. Senate and U.S. House

Georgia state offices15 offices

Statewide offices and Georgia General Assembly

County & local offices4 offices

County, city and special-district offices

School board3 offices

Public school board elections

Ballot measures

Statewide · Amendment 1

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.

Official ballot wording

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 measure information

Statewide · Amendment 2

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.

Official ballot wording

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

Official measure information

Statewide · Amendment 3

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.

Official ballot wording

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?

Official measure information

Douglas County voters

Transportation sales tax (TSPLOST)

Who votes: All eligible Douglas County voters.

A 1% sales and use tax for transportation purposes for up to six years, raising an estimated amount of no more than $160 million. Approval also authorizes Douglas County to issue up to $80 million in general obligation debt for those purposes.

YES: Approve this transportation sales tax and the associated authority to issue up to $80 million in debt.

NO: Reject this proposed tax and its associated borrowing authorization.

Official ballot wording

Shall a special one percent (1%) sales and use tax be imposed in the special district of Douglas County for a period of time not to exceed six years and for the raising of not more than an estimated amount of $160,000,000.00 for transportation purposes? If the imposition of the tax is approved by the voters, such vote shall also constitute approval of the issuance of general obligation debt of Douglas County, in the principal amount of up to $80,000,000 for the above purposes.

Official measure information

Local questions apply only to the city or district shown. Additional questions may appear on your ballot.

Official wording & what YES / NO means

5Candidates & offices

Includes the 25 candidate contests and four ballot questions in Douglas County’s November 3, 2026 composite sample ballot, reviewed September 22. This countywide reference combines different districts; your personal sample ballot determines which contests you can vote in. School-board districts are matched with the county GIS map when the address point is available.

Understanding district and seat labels

A district number belongs to a particular office. Congressional District 5 and State Senate District 5 are different areas.

Read the office, its district or seat, and “Who votes” together. A numbered seat can be elected countywide. Your precinct is the county’s voting area used to assign your polling place.

Federal offices3 offices

U.S. Senate and U.S. House

Georgia state offices15 offices

Statewide offices and Georgia General Assembly

Statewide offices

Georgia General Assembly

County & local offices4 offices

County, city and special-district offices

County offices

School board3 offices

Public school board elections

Board of Education

District 2

Who votes: Eligible voters in Douglas County School Board District 2, matched to the published county GIS boundary.

  • Tammie Harris-RoachDEM

Listed in the county composite ballot. The county GIS school-board district polygon determines address eligibility; confirm on your personal sample ballot.

Douglas County November 3 sample ballotFull office details

Board of Education

District 4

Who votes: Eligible voters in Douglas County School Board District 4, matched to the published county GIS boundary.

  • Michelle SimmonsDEM

Listed in the county composite ballot. The county GIS school-board district polygon determines address eligibility; confirm on your personal sample ballot.

Douglas County November 3 sample ballotFull office details
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