VOTE 2024: Where to vote in Polk

Time is flying as the year is getting shorter, and the chance to cast a ballot early begins next week as voting season returns following the Columbus Day holiday.

Election Day 2025 just under a month away from when voters will be heading to the polls for local-focused elections, with two cities able to call off their votes, but referendums remain on the ballot for the entire county and voters in the Cedartown City limits.

Voter registration ended on Monday, and now early voting is set to begin on Tuesday, October 14 (due to the Columbus Day holiday) and will continue through month’s end on Friday, October 31.

Election Director Noah Beck said his team is ready to roll up their sleeves and get this round of voting underway.

“We are excited for our 2025 election season to finish strong,” Beck said. “We are hoping for high turnout and look forward to serving the voters of Polk County during this election period.”

Both the Cedartown precinct at the Goodyear Civic Center on Prior Street and the Rockmart precinct at the Nathan Dean Community Center off Goodyear Avenue will be open starting next Tuesday on weekdays through the end of the month, and on Saturday October 18 and Saturday, October 25 at both locations. Times for all dates are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Applications to get an absentee ballot are open through Friday, October 24 at close of business.

Cedartown’s referendum question is the following: ““Shall the Act be approved which authorizes the City of Cedartown to exercise all redevelopment powers allowed under the ‘Redevelopment Powers law,’ as it may be amended from time to time?”

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The redevelopment powers would provide the city a number of tools in order to attract commercial and industrial development within the city limits, but also allows for the city to create the Tax Allocation District being sought for the Publix development, and would include commercial businesses around the Highway 27 bypass intersection currently anchored by Walmart and Home Depot.

That ballot referendum is only available for voters who reside within the city limits of Cedartown.

Cedartown voters will still be able to vote for the City Commission seats up this year, but they will be single candidate votes since there were no challengers for the incumbents this year.

Countywide, voters are being asked to decide on a referendum requested by the Polk School District over allowing a senior exemption for property taxes collected for local schools.

The referendum reads as follows:

“Shall the Act be approved which provides a homestead exemption from Polk County school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of the greater of 50 percent or $60,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for residents of that school district who are at least 65 years of age, in the amount of the greater of 75 percent or $80,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for residents of that school district who are at least 70 years of age, and in the amount of the full assessed value of the homestead that does not exceed $500,000.00 appraised fair market value for residents of that school district who are at least 77 years of age, with an annual aggregate cap of $150 million in calendar year 2026?”

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The above referendum is joined by the Public Service Commission races that will determine seats on the statewide utility board. Primaries were held earlier this summer for those seats. It is an election redo for the state, who in 2022 had voted on these seats, but a lawsuit that eventually wound its way through state courts required that the election be redone.

The City of Rockmart and City of Aragon elections were called off due to no challengers stepping up on the ballot and incumbents will remain in their seats, or in the case of one Aragon Council seat a replacement will be sworn in come January 1, 2026.

The City of Braswell will be holding elections this year. Check back for coverage on that separate election getting underway next week as it becomes available.