Richmond County Board of Elections is proposing three polling place changes for Nov. 7 elections.
Due to ongoing construction at the Henry Brigham Community Center and Hephzibah Carroll Community Center, the board wants to relocate voters to other sites.
Brigham voters would move two doors down on Golden Camp Road to Belle Terrace Presbyterian Church for Election Day voting.
For advance voting, held the week prior to the election for voters regardless of address, Brigham voting would move to the Charles Evans Community Center at Wood Park near Daniel Field Airport.
The center is in a different commission district and three miles from Brigham.
Carroll center Election Day voters will move to Oasis Church at Hephzibah on Ga. Hwy. 88.
The only thing on the Nov. 7 ballot for Augusta voters is a referendum on levying a new half-cent sales tax.
The tax proceeds would be used to repay a $433 million bond issue to finance construction of a new James Brown Arena.
Blythe voters, who vote at Blythe City Hall, also decide a council seat Nov. 7.
The board of elections will have a public hearing on the three proposed changes at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11.
Advance voting will be offered the three weeks prior to the election at Augusta Municipal Building starting Oct. 16.
During the week prior to the election, it will be held there, at Warren Road Community Center, Robert Howard Community Center at Diamond Lakes Regional Park and the Evans center.
The commission is set Tuesday to approve advancing the elections board $195,000 to pay for the election. Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority is expected to reimburse the funds when it has them.
