Update to an earlier report: This article includes new information about a story we previously covered. Read our earlier report.
Unofficial results show Statesboro voters elected Loletta Donaldson-Elliott to a City Council seat left vacant when Paulette Chavers resigned in May. The reported result was 1,055-293-282.
In the Bulloch County commission race, incumbent Democrat Anthony Simmons was reported re-elected to a ninth term, receiving 3,578 votes to challenger Spencer Johnson’s 1,690.
The Statesboro seat was vacant when Mayor Jonathan McCollar cast the deciding vote during an August discussion approving a request to build a data center on Burkhalter Road.
By News Now Georgia
Yolonda Harris
News Now Georgia
