Who Bought Your Ballot Chatham County · Nov. 3, 2026

Who bought your ballot?

A corporate donation isn’t a gift. It’s an investment.

See how much corporations, executives and billionaires have invested in every candidate on your Chatham County ballot. These are not the candidates’ total fundraising, just the money from wealthy people and corporations buying influence. Enter your address to see your races.

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Corporate, executive and billionaire money behind each party's nominees

Where it comes from

Corporate: businesses, company PACs, trade groups and lobbyists. Executives: gifts of $1,000+ (state) or $3,500+ (federal) from people listing their job as owner, president, vice president, chairman or a C-suite title. Billionaire: people Forbes or Bloomberg list as billionaires. Big individual donors: people who gave $100,000 or more to one committee or outside group; for outside groups, their share of what the group spent here. Covers every race on a Chatham County ballot (statewide, U.S. Senate, U.S. House 1, and the county's State Senate and House races), plus the governor's, lieutenant governor's and legislative caucus committees.

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State legislature and school board

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Ballot questions
Statewide · Amendment 1

Conservation tax break

A property tax break for land kept in conservation use. It is aimed mostly at timber growers, who have lost buyers as paper mills close, including the International Paper plant here.

YesApproves the tax break.
NoLeaves the current tax rules in place.

Local guide writer Michelle Solomon reports no organized opposition, with environmental groups on board because they would rather see timberland than warehouses.

Statewide · Amendment 2

Probate judges without party labels

Makes every election for probate judge nonpartisan. Probate courts handle wills, estates, guardianships and marriage licenses.

YesProbate judges statewide run without a D or R next to their name.
NoCounties that still elect them by party keep doing so.

Chatham County already elects its probate judge this way, so nothing changes here either way.

Statewide · Amendment 3

A locked fund for 911 upgrades

Lets the state create a Georgia Next Generation 911 Fund. The 911 fees already on your phone bill could go into it and be spent only on building and running a modern statewide 911 system. It does not add a new fee.

YesAllows the dedicated fund. The legislature still has to pass a second law saying how the money goes in and comes out.
No911 fee money keeps flowing as it does now.

Source: Georgia Municipal Association. Chatham has already moved to Next Generation 911. The open question is how the follow-up law splits money between counties.

Chatham County only

School tax refund fix

In November 2025 Chatham voters approved a homestead exemption that slows the growth of school property taxes. This question repairs technical problems in how that law was written.

YesFixes the drafting of the exemption voters already passed.
NoLeaves the 2025 version as written.

The school district says the 2025 exemption cut projected revenue growth by $8.7 million this budget year.