Initiative May Have Brought in 19K New Voters
Johns Creek schools participated in registration drives.
The North Fulton County Voter Education, Registration and Participation Initiative may have added roughly 19,000 new voters in North Fulton, including 3,509 in Johns Creek, in time for the 2012 presidential election. Fulton Voter Education Specialist Julia Reed’s final report on the initiative stated that in Nov. 2011, there were 73,680 potential voters in North Fulton uninvolved in the electoral process. Of those, 33,282 were registered voters who had not voted in three to seven years and 40,397 were eligible but unregistered. The combined 73,680 represented 59.4 percent of the county’s inactive and unregistered eligible voters. “36.4 percent of all Fulton County voters reside in North Fulton,” Reed said. “If only half of the voters in …
