Voting Ballots Back Home

The voter ballot set for my hometown shows a lot of familiar names. Obviously, there are the presidential candidates and their running mates, which I hope at this point we are all familiar with. A little closer to home, I found it interesting that the Senator and House Representative were going unopposed. Senator Lindsey Tippins is someone who has been very active in the community in Acworth. While I really don’t know all that much about his political viewpoints, I know he really is a very nice man and often visited my high school for various sporting events. I’m not at all familiar with the other incumbent in the House. On the Cobb County School District section, I wasn’t surprised to find Randi Scamihorn on the ballot. He was very active in my school as well and was my substitute teacher many times over the years. More interestingly, I noticed there was a Democrat on the list, which is very uncommon in my hometown.

As for the other issues on the ballot, I was actually just discussing these topics with my boss earlier this week. She and I talked about how the ideas on the ballot were good in the sense of the attempt to secure funds to help different groups of people, especially those who have been victims of sexual assault. The weird part is the group of people they intend to tax. This just got me wondering how much money that would actually raise and if that would be enough to actually change anything.