Undecided voters weigh in at Suwanee market ahead of Georgia primary

Undecided voters were still sorting through their choices at the Suwanee Farmers Market, where WABE reporter Rahul Bali spoke with shoppers at Town Center on Main and DeLay Nature Park, 421 Main Street in downtown Suwanee, just before Georgia’s primary. The hesitation matters in Forsyth County, where early voting had reached 15,628 people, equal to 8.6% of the county’s 181,246 registered voters.

The county’s ballot mix shows why turnout and persuasion still matter. Of those 15,628 primary votes, 11,247 were Republican, 4,232 were Democratic and 149 were nonpartisan. Separate Forsyth County early-voting totals showed 22,712 voters overall, including 16,884 Republican ballots and 5,828 Democratic ballots, a sign of the county’s strong GOP lean and the tighter runway Democrats face in a suburban electorate that keeps growing.

That dynamic could shape the governor’s race and any other contest that reaches a runoff. Georgia’s Democratic and Republican primaries both go to a runoff if no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote, and by May 4 the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was reporting that many voters still had not decided whom to support. In that same report, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms led Democratic primary polling, while businessman Rick Jackson had become a major factor in the Republican race after pledging to spend at least $50 million of his own money.

Forsyth County voters were set to cast ballots Tuesday, May 19, in the General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election, a date listed by both the Georgia Secretary of State and the Forsyth County Board of Elections. With 282,805 residents and a voter pool that already skews heavily Republican, even modest changes in who shows up can affect the margins that decide whether a race ends outright or heads to another round.

The Suwanee Farmers Market opened its 2026 summer season on May 9 and runs Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon through October. In that familiar setting, the undecided voters Bali found offered an early sign that the final vote in Forsyth County may still hinge on turnout, not just party labels.