Voters will get a chance to head back to the polls following the Thanksgiving holiday on Tuesday, December 1 to determine who will take over the County Commission District 2 seat at the start of the new year. Assuming they don’t want to cast a ballot early, or by mail.

Absentee ballots should be heading out to homes across the county for the run-off between Commissioner Linda Liles and Ricky Clark, who in years past held the post.

The Polk County Board of Elections will also hold three days of early voting ahead of the run-off, starting on Monday and continuing through Wednesday. Voters will need to go to the Board of Elections office within the tag office building at 144 West Ave., Cedartown. Early voting will only be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for those three days.

Elections Coordinator Brande Coggins said the Board of Elections was waiting earlier in the week for new absentee ballots to arrive for the December 1 and January 5 votes.

Voters who previously requested an absentee ballot to vote with for the General Election will receive a ballot for each the December 1 and January 5 run-off dates, but must be sent separately since the County Commission District 2 race is coming up first, and then the second for the January 5 run-off for Georgia’s 2 U.S. Senate seats.

The local election’s absentee ballots will come directly from the Board of Elections, and the state will be sending out ballots for the Senate races.

Additionally, those who didn’t previously register to vote for the November election and want to take part in the January 5 Senate seat runoffs can seek to participate by December 7 by filling out and submitting paperwork to vote.

Earlier in the week, officials wrapped up a hand recount of the November 3 Election and found no issues with their tallies first reported on Election Night. Just across the county line in Floyd, their Elections Director was fired this week after 2,600 ballots were found to have not been scanned and counted.