UPDATE:  A bit more detail.  If you know where to look on the state’s website you can find more detailed info on the vote.

Absentee by Mail Votes

2 – Coleson

2 – Drake

Advance in Person

10 – Coleson

5 – Drake

Clairemont East

234 – Coleson

186 – Drake

Clairemont West

159 – Coleson

169 – Drake

Glenwood

53 – Coleson

100 – Drake

Ponce de Leon

67 – Coleson

77 – Drake

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Wow.  Georgia’s Election Results website shows that Scott Drake beat Greg Coleson by just 14 votes to take Bill Floyd’s seat on the Decatur City Commission, with a final tally of 539 to 525.  That means that Drake received 50.66% of the vote to Coleson’s 49.34%.

The seat’s term runs through 2015.

Did you catch this in the latest Decatur Focus?

Development along the Trinity Place corridor will be anchored on the west by the city’s Beacon project, which will include a new police station, the administrative offices for City Schools  of Decatur and a renovated gym and recreation facility. To the east along Trinity, the Trinity  Triangle project is finally moving forward. This project was approved as an apartment development with retail fronting E. Trinity Place.

The developers, a joint venture between Texas firms Cypress Realty and Centro Development, plan to move forward with the approved plan. However, they are currently negotiating  with the owner of Dairy Queen to relocate him into a new space in the development to allow  the project to incorporate the triangle area into the project. We anticipate that this project will  begin construction in 2014.

Allison writes in…

Male dog, appears to be a very sweet pit bull mix found this morning in Oakhurst Park. He is currently safe but I am sure he is ready to be home. Please call Sharon at 404-274-0605 if this is your dog or you know who he belongs to.

As Commissioner Patti Garrett mentioned at the end of the Decatur City Commission meeting last night, Spring Neighborhood Clean-Up Days start this weekend.  Oakhurst you are up first, so call up your neighbors to get that giant, defunct attic fan to the curb!

No liquids, dirt, bricks, blocks, stone, rocks, concrete or motor vehicle batteries/parts!

Basically everything else is fair game.

More info in the PDF HERE.

Today’s the day to cast your vote in the special election to fill Bill Floyd’s vacant seat on the Decatur City Commission.  Two Decatur residents, Greg Coleson and Scott Drake, are up on the ballot.  Use this open thread to report issues at your polling precincts, any wait times to vote, or just complement your polling station volunteers!

If you still don’t know where you need to vote, you can access the State’s voter webpage to pull up the address of your assigned precinct.  Happy voting Decatur!