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Bull Run precinct likely to move
Heritage Hunt residents may be voting a lot closer to home come November.
The county's Office of Voter Registration and Elections is working on a plan to move Gainesville's Bull Run polling place from Bull Run Middle School to Heritage Hunt.
“The community there has asked us to go that route for them,” said General Registrar Betty Weimer.
According to Gainesville Supervisor John Stirrup (R), about 97 percent of Bull Run precinct voters live in Heritage Hunt, a gated community for seniors between Heathcote Boulevard and Catharpin Road.
The rest of the precincts voters live in communities that are closer to Heritage Hunt than to the current polling place at Bull Run Middle School on Catharpin Road.
“The support to do that is overwhelming,” Stirrup said of the move. “It would make it easier for all those voters to participate.”
Weimer said the Heritage Hunt Homeowners Association asked for the move. Some of the reasons include the fact that the community has better parking facilities than the school, and it would be easier for many of the elderly residents to vote if they didn't have to drive out, often after dark, to vote.
The Board of County Supervisors is expected to approve the polling change on Aug. 5. After that, the U.S. Justice Department must review the plan and approve it, as well.
If the Justice Department approves the plan by Sept. 5, residents will be able to vote at Heritage Hunt in the November General Election.
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