Tiny turnout of voters chooses to renew SPLOST

Baldwin County voters Tuesday chose to extend the current one-cent special purpose tax for up to six years, but relatively few local residents took the opportunity to have a say in the outcome. With all 14 precincts reporting and early voting and absentee ballots counted, the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) was approved by a 1,245-774 margin (62%-38%), with 7.21% of th...