The question seems to be not “will Sunday alcohol sales pass?” but “by how much?”
Patch reported on its live blog that with 3 of 7 precincts reporting, Decatur was skewing 90%/10% in favor of Sunday Alcohol Sales.
So, will Decatur post the largest “Yes” number? According to AJC.com, thus far many metro cities are posting around an 80% “yes” vote. No one else is up at 90%.
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I’m surprised how easily this is passing–not in Decatur, but everywhere else. Glad to say I was wrong in predicting closer votes.
it makes complete sense to pass this – if only all decisions were voted on with such common sense…
We are the 90%.
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I love you, DW.
But as was pointed out earlier today somewhere on DM, a yes vote for alcohol sales only puts the decision-making into local hands instead of state hands, and the local hands are more easily lobbied. So a yes vote now is not an endorsement of Sunday sales–could just make a “no” vote easier to accomplish.
But not in Decatur. I think we all know what it means in Decatur.
True, but considering how solid the majorities are, I don’t see anyone challenging it.
I really doubt politicians will defy the will of 80-90% of the voters on this issue. It passed with 82% in Atlanta, 85% in Sandy Springs, etc.
I’d be interested in seeing the totals for SPLOST in Decatur, too. Passed by about a 2-1 margin overall in DeKalb.
62% For in DeKalb. I haven’t found the breakdown specific to Decatur.
I think the heathens in Pine Lake will have everyone beat
Final tally: Pine Lake 93% Yes, Decatur 91% Yes. 120 total votes in Pine Lake.
Reading the ajc totals, looks like a total of 13 people voted in Stone Mountain, at least on the sunday sales portion. Talk about every vote counting… but i wonder why the crazy low turnout?
3,748 Decatur residents cast ballots in the sunday sales referendum- what does that equal in registered voter turnout? seems like it might be high– how does it compare to recent elections?
It’s up quite a bit from 2009. 2,788 people voted in the Valerie Wilson/Rob Pope citywide election two years ago. This is really something considering that there were no contested races in District 2 or City wide this time.
The booze and the schools bring people out.
Considering the turnout and how easily ESPLOST passed, I’m starting to rethink my opinion that TSPLOST has no chance. If TSPLOST advocates could only get marijuana legalization on the ballot…
If you start a movement for that, I will support you.
As we learned in the early 2000s during the effort to put the closing of Westchester on the ballot, the list of Decatur’s “registered voters” is padded by about 10% to include many people who have moved or died or otherwise become ineligible to vote. “Active voters” are those who have cast one or more votes recently and probably is a more accurate measure of the number of voters. Decatur has about 15,681 registered voters and 13,954 “active” voters. If the preliminary numbers hold up, the citywide vote for the alcohol referendum drew 3,748 votes, which was was 23.9% of registered voters and 26.8% of active voters. The preliminary numbers indicating that 2,103 folks voted in the Garrett/Pam race. That means that 22.5% of registered northside voters, or 25.4% of eligible “active” voters, cast a vote.
thanks- very interesting.
I’m so happy!
YAY BOOZE! BOO KIDS!
I am two house down and across the street from City of Decatur line so could not vote but thrilled y’all did! So nice to have a choice now on Sunday. And here is to a future of not having to make a mad dash to Kroger’s at 11pm on a Saturday night if I am having a dinner party on Sunday and don’t have enough wine to serve!
Pine Lake edged us out–93% for (112 yes, 8 no).
Y’all who are celebrating do know there’s still no package stores inside the city limits don’t you? There is the place near the Avondale MARTA and the place north of the YMCA on Clairmont.
This was actually a vote for wine and beer on Sundays, a vote to let us have NFL football and Ale Yeah! growlers, or a nice bottle of wine.
City of Atlanta passed it which has package stores. Dekalb County will fall in March.
I thought it was funny that there was specific language stating “from 12:30 pm to 11:30 pm”
So, we will have to wait until after church. The Lord’s day has been downsized
Actually, Pine Lake had a larger percentage than Decatur, but there were only about 110 votes total there.
Slightly on/off topic: Will the DeKalb County government PLEASE create a more user-friendly, results-by-the-minute election results website? I like to see data coming in live rather than waiting for an omnibus report.
One city/county that does it right in Georgia: Augusta-Richmond County. They have maps that shade the precinct color for whatever candidate/yes-no side wins in that precinct so it’s easy to do analysis by the moment.
We need a liquor co-op on Sundays. Set up some tents in the BOA parking lot. You could have each tent sorted by %proof or regional affliation. I have several bottles of limoncello from Italy that I no longer can handle.
So, when do Sunday sales begin?
A previous post indicated that we could be taking a six-pack home the Sunday after Thanksgiving. So pretty soon!