Willow Point property owners can create their own road maintenance district and Tallapoosa County is easily a Republican County.
Record voter turnout didn’t create any issues in Tallapoosa County as it registered voters easily approved the local constitutional amendment for Willow Point with 75.18% of the vote. In all, 13,084 voters voted ‘yes’ to the measure with 4,319 voting ‘no.’ Notably, more voters supported the amendment than there are Republican voters in Tallapoosa County. Not one of Tallapoosa County’s 27 voting precincts was against the measure.
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