DeKalb County voters cast ballots for four school board seats Tuesday. The results seemed to send a message to incumbents: shape up or we’ll vote you out. Recent financial problems and a lack of cohesion on the school board seemed to affect the way some DeKalb residents, like Giles Stephens and Charles Ponder, voted.
“[I voted] anti-incumbent,” Stephens said, “I just figured, ‘They’re not doing a good job, so vote them out.’”
“I voted for all the new people coming in and [to] throw the incumbents out because I think they’re doing a horrible job,” Ponder said.
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