Floyd County Board of Elections chairman Pete McDonald thinks that the county will be fortunate if 30 percent of the approximately 43,000 registered voters participate in the July primary elections. Fellow Board of Elections member Mardi Haynes-Jackson and Elections Supervisor Evon Billups joined McDonald for a presentation to the Rome Kiwanis Club Monday.

If there is a question about identification, or registration during actual election day voting, voters are allowed to cast provisional ballots.

“We want everybody to vote, then we’ll track down the situation,” McDonald said. If the issue involved the lack of proper photo ID, the voters have two days to present proper identification at the Board of Elections office in the county administrative office building on E. First Street at Fourth Avenue, to allow their vote to be counted.

“Most of the time, people are not registered,” McDonald said. “We had a guy from Detroit who tried to vote and we told him he had to go back to Michigan.”

Monday is the last day for people to register to vote in the primary on July 20th.

McDonald said that on election night, it should take officials about two to two and a half hours after the polls close to get the count completed, “Unless we have delays at the precinct level,” McDonald said. “I think we have improved the process over the last several years.”