How many absentee ballots are out there and when are they expected to be counted?

Sugar Creek:

217 yes
300 no

cumlative: 2680 yes, 2940 no

There were approximately 900 absentee ballots mailed out and about 500 returned. I'm told they're counting them now.

Unofficial absentees:

265 yes
284 no

WTF?!

Well I may be pulling a "Dewey Wins" but it looks as if we'll have to still sip our alcohol through Brown Bags and wait for the Blue Ridge Golf & River Resort to be finished. The "Temperance Movement" may have won the battle but ultimately the war is lost.

-Lets cross our fingers for the absentee ballots-

Unofficial: we lost by 278 votes

Flint Hill
336 yes
605 no

Skeenah

49 yes
39 no

I am bummed and I don't even drink that much. Thanks Kip for the updates. I wish the golf course would hurry up and get finished though.

It's official: referendum lost by (initially 'leaked' as 278) 541 votes. Stuck on stupid prevails for a few more years...

3330 yes
3871 no

46.25% yes
53.76% no

Headed home for a cold one folks. Thanks for tuning in.

Well the true travesty of all of this is that once again fear-mongering and illegal tax exempt funding has won out over foresight, mediation, and control.
At some point liquor will be in this county. Whether it is through a development that gives its liquor taxes directly to the State of Georgia, thereby surpassing the local coffers, or whether it is by a thunderous change in commission direction and leadership. Change is coming. It always has and always will. The problem is how are you going to control it?

I want to thank everyone who participated in the vote regardless of how you feel. I'm just bummed that the citizens decided to give up control for complacency.

Fight the Good Fight!