FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County has eliminated its South Forsyth (21) voting precinct. Voters who were assigned to it have been moved to other precincts and polling places for the Nov. 3 General Election and Special Elections, according to the county's Polling Places & Precincts page. The county estimates about 5,700 registered voters are reassigned to a different Election Day polling place (county slides).
Is this you?
South Forsyth (21), north of Sharon Road
You are now in the Daves Creek (38) precinct. Your Election Day polling place is Grace Fellowship of South Forsyth, 2750 Ronald Reagan Blvd, Cumming. The county estimates about 1,075 registered voters are in this group.
South Forsyth (21), south of Sharon Road
You are now in the Big Creek (01) precinct. Your Election Day polling place is First Redeemer Church, 2100 Peachtree Pkwy, Cumming. The county estimates about 2,001 registered voters are in this group.
Big Creek (01), south and west of Caney Road and south and east of Old Alpharetta Road
You are now in the Johns Creek (35) precinct. Your Election Day polling place is Johns Creek Baptist Church, 6910 McGinnis Ferry Rd, Alpharetta. The county estimates about 2,653 registered voters are in this group. Those boundaries are the county's wording in its June 2026 notice.
How to check. The county tells voters to confirm their assigned polling place on the Secretary of State's My Voter Page. On Election Day, polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and the county says the elections office is not open for voting that day (county page). The elections office number is (770) 781-2118.
Advance voting. Any registered voter can vote early at any of four locations, whatever their assigned polling place: the elections office (1201 Sawnee Dr), Hampton Park Library (5345 Settingdown Rd), Midway Park Community Building (5100 Post Rd) and Johns Creek Baptist Church (6910 McGinnis Ferry Rd). Hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday through Oct. 30, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, with no voting Sunday, Oct. 25 (county page).
The county lists Oct. 23 as the last day to request an absentee ballot, and Oct. 5 was the voter registration deadline (county elections page).
How it happened
In March 2025 the county said the South Forsyth polling place might move to the Sharon Forks Public Library for all 2025 elections because of scheduled construction at Sharon Springs Park (notice). In February 2026 it proposed moving the polling place to the park's community building (notice; press release).
The county says Sharon Springs Park closed for renovations on Feb. 9, 2026, in a project expected to finish in early 2028, and that the finished park will have a new community building for events and voting (county page).
On June 19, 2026, the Board of Voter Registrations & Elections voted to propose eliminating the precinct and adjusting the Big Creek, Johns Creek and Daves Creek precincts (June notice). County commissioners had a presentation on it at their July 14 work session, with no formal action (Summary), and it was on their Aug. 6 agenda (agenda). The county's Polling Places & Precincts page says the elections board and the Board of Commissioners approved the changes in July and August, reducing the county to 29 Election Day polling places, effective with the November election (county page).
The county's slides say voters who voted at the Sharon Springs Park community building on Election Day will be reassigned to another polling place and precinct (slides). They do not give a reason for eliminating the precinct rather than choosing a new polling place for it.
What the county's director said
On the county's own FoCo Unplugged podcast, published Oct. 15, Elections Director Mandi Smith said the Sharon Springs Park community building is currently not available to the office and that the office had to find another location in that area for the voters assigned there (FoCo Unplugged, Oct. 15, 2026). The county's Polling Places & Precincts page describes reassigning those voters to two existing precincts, not opening a new location in that area, and the podcast does not say which location Smith meant.
What is not yet clear: The county's documents do not say why it chose to eliminate the precinct instead of keeping a polling place for it. We did not find the Board of Commissioners' Aug. 6 meeting summary, so we cannot say how the board voted. The records we read do not say whether affected voters will receive a new precinct card by mail. The county says the renovated park will have a community building for voting, and it does not say whether the precinct would return.
Sources
- Forsyth County: Polling Places & Precincts
- Public notice of voting precinct and polling place changes, June 2026 (PDF)
- Precinct and polling place changes slides, June 2026 (PDF)
- Public notice of changes to Election Day polling places, hearing Feb. 23, 2026 (PDF)
- County press release, Feb. 12, 2026 (PDF)
- Public notice of polling place change, 21-South Forsyth precinct, hearing April 14, 2025 (PDF)
- Board of Commissioners work session Summary, July 14, 2026 (PDF)
- Board of Commissioners regular meeting agenda, Aug. 6, 2026 (PDF)
- Forsyth County: Sharon Springs Park
- Forsyth County: Advance Voting in Person
- Forsyth County: Current & Upcoming Elections
- Forsyth County: Election Day Voting
- FoCo Unplugged: The Ins and Outs of Election Season in Forsyth County, Oct. 15, 2026, a Forsyth County government podcast; the director's statements are the director's own, not independent reporting
Written by the site's AI reporting agent from the sources listed on this page, and read and approved by the editor before publication.