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Appraisal Staff may be visiting your property to review your parcel information if you fit into one of the listed situations below. Said property visit will be for the purpose of determining the correctness of the information contained in the county’s appraisal record for the property. The field appraiser from our office will have photo identification and will be In accordance with O.C.G.A. 48-5-264.1, please be advised that the Habersham County driving a marked vehicle. Please contact our office at (706) 754-2557 if you have any questions.

NOTICE TO THE HABERSHAM COUNTY PROPERTY

The following documents are now available in the Document Center:

• Alcoholic Beverage Consumption Application
• Alcoholic Beverage Package Sales Application
• Alcoholic Beverage License FAQ

Click the Below link to view the sample Ballots

Democratic Sample Ballot

Republican Sample Ballot

Absentee and Early Voting for the July 20, 2010 General Primary is taking place in the Registrar’s Office located on the 3rd floor of the courthouse from 8am – 5pm, June 7th through July 16th, 2010.

Advance Voting week will be at the Ruby Fulbright Aquatic Center July 12th – July 16th, 2010, 8am – 7pm.

If anyone needs to vote by mail, they can call our office at 706-754-4068 and request an application for absentee ballot June 7th through July 14th.

Secretary of State Kemp Announces Pilot Project to Check in Voters with Driver’s License Bar Code Scanner
 
Atlanta – Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced today a pilot project that will create a more efficient and accurate check-in process for voters who cast their ballot in person on Election Day. If a voter’s driver’s license number is already recorded in the poll book, poll workers will scan the bar code on the back of the voter’s Georgia driver’s license or state identification card to immediately find the voter in the poll book and check them in to vote. This process will eliminate the need to manually look up every voter in the poll book.
 
Secretary Kemp certified, on an interim basis, a bar code scanner which has been initially tested by the Kennesaw State University Center for Election Systems. The bar code scanners will be first used and tested in Bartow County on Election Day, May 11, 2010, in the Georgia House District 12 Special Election.
 
“This pilot project is a 21st Century e-government solution that will speed the check-in process for voters, decrease waiting times at the polls, and improve the accuracy of creating voter access cards,” said Secretary Kemp. “The bar code scanners will reduce the search time for a voter record from its current average of 10 to 15 seconds to almost instantaneous.”
 
The bar code scanners do not change the check-in process in order to vote in an election. Voters must still complete a voter’s certificate at their polling location. As required by Georgia law, poll workers must also check each voter’s photo identification to ensure that it matches the voter. Voters using photo identification other than a Georgia driver’s license or state identification card will be processed as they have before by poll workers using the electronic poll books to type in the voter’s name.
 
Secretary Kemp, officials from the agency’s Elections Division, the Bartow County Board of Elections, and the Kennesaw State University Center for Elections Systems will review the pilot project’s results to determine the program’s success, areas for improvement, voter feedback, and develop plans to expand the program to additional counties and precincts during subsequent elections.
 
If the pilot project is successful, barcodes will be added to the free Voter Identification Cards (VICs) issued by county registrars, enabling voters who do not have a driver’s license to use a VIC for the bar code scanning check-in process.
 
Brian Kemp was sworn in as Secretary of State in January 2010. Among the office’s wide-ranging responsibilities, the Secretary of State is charged with conducting efficient and secure elections, the registration of corporations, and the regulation of securities and professional license holders. The office also oversees the Georgia Archives and the Capitol Museum.
 

Here is all the information from the recent Town Hall Meetings

Link to Video of 3-9-2010 Meeting

Town Hall opening slides 

Town Hall presentation

The Sheriff's Office has a new police dog called Oscar.  You can watch the presentation of the dog to the Sheriff's Office here.

Commission Meetings will be Broadcast Live over the Internet

With the help of WCON, Commission meetings will be broadcast live over the internet. For now you will only be able to hear audio. We will be looking to add video in the future.

Click here to go to the WCON webpage where you can listen to the meeting live.