McDONOUGH — Voting in schools could soon become a thing of the past for Henry County.
According to Tina Lunsford, Henry’s director of elections and voter registration, the county intends to move all voting precincts out of schools by the 2020 election cycle, if “acceptable alternate facilities can be utilized.”
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