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The ADVANCE, December 15, 2021/Page 2A
Butch Miller wants to ban
absentee ballot drop boxes
What is the Legend of Rudolph,
the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
During the Great Depression in have to receive approval for their spe-
1939 Robert L. May had a four-year- cial individual qualities.
old daughter, and his wife was dying
of cancer. May was a poor copywriter
working for Montgomery Ward in
Chicago, and they tasked him
with creating a “cheery
children’s book” for
Christmas for the compa
ny to give away for public-
The story he created ■
was that of Rudolph, a rein
deer born with a big shiny
red nose. Santa’s other
reindeer teased Rudolph
about his odd nose until
one Christmas eve when thick
mist engulfed the earth. Santa
realized that Rudolph’s glowing
bright red nose would help him
navigate the fog and distribute his
toys. He asked Rudolph to guide his
sleigh safely to every chimney that
night. The embarrassing red nose,
which had set Rudolph apart, became
his most prized possession. Rudolph’s
story embodies the need children
While May was still working on
the story, his wife died. The booklet
became so popular that Rudolph
was in great demand for spon
soring products. When in 1946
May received an offer from an
other company to record
the story, he could not ac-
IV J cept because Ward’s held the
copywrite. Then Ward’s
president gave May the
copywrite, free and clear,
after using Rudolph for
advertising for one more
Christmas season. May re
signed from Wards and cre
ated his own company to manage
Rudolph sales, but later declining
sales and the high federal income
tax in the 1950s drove him to return
to Ward’s to earn a living as a copyedi
tor where he remained until he retired
in 1970. May died in 1976.
Rudolph still occupies a perma
nent niche in the Christmas legend.
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Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
Georgia would aban
don the use of absentee
ballot drop boxes under
legislation Senate Presi
dent Pro Tempore Butch
Miller pre-filed in the
General Assembly Mon
day.
Drop boxes have been
used before elections dur
ing the last two years to
help prevent the spread
of C OVID-19. But a con
troversial election reform
bill the Republican-con-
trolled legislature passed
last March significantly
limited the number of
drop boxes cities and
counties could deploy.
Now, Miller, R-
Gainesville, who is run
ning for lieutenant gov
ernor, wants to eliminate
absentee ballot drop box
es altogether.
“This is the next step
in our fight to restore
Georgians’ faith in our
election systems,” Miller
said Monday.
“Drop boxes were in
troduced as an emergency
measure during the pan
demic, but many counties
did not follow the security
guidelines in place, such
as the requirement for
camera surveillance on
every drop box. Moving
forward, we can return to
a pre-pandemic normal of
voting in person.”
Democrats, who op
posed the election bill as
a bid by majority Repub
licans to make it harder
for Georgians to vote,
criticized the drop box
legislation as a politically
motivated move by Miller
to offset former President
Donald Trump’s endorse
ment of state Sen. Burt
Jones, R-Jackson, in next
May’s Republican prima
ry for lieutenant governor.
“[Miller is] trying to
silence the voters of color
who elected Democrats
last cycle by banning one
of the most popular ways
they chose to cast their
ballots,” said Scott Ho
gan, executive director of
the Democratic Party of
Georgia.
“No one who wants
to suppress Georgia vot
ers deserves to make our
laws or help lead our state,
and Georgia Democrats
will not stop fighting to
protect our elections from
Republicans who clearly
don’t believe in democ
racy.”
Republican Geoff
Duncan, the current
lieutenant governor, an
nounced he would not
seek reelection after refus
ing to take part in Trump’s
attempts to overturn last
year’s presidential elec
tion in Georgia.
Besides Miller and
Jones, GOP activist
Jeanne Seaver of Savan
nah is also running for the
Republican nomination
for lieutenant governor.
Democrats in the race
include Bryan Miller of
Watkinsville, grandson of
the late Gov. and U.S. Sen.
Zell Miller, and three state
representatives: Erick Al
len of Smyrna, Derrick
Jackson of Tyrone and
Renitta Shannon of Deca
tur.
This story is available
through a news partnership
with Capitol Beat News
Service, a project of the
Georgia Press Educational
Foundation.
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continued from page 1A
the Acworth Georgia Po
lice Department about a
week later. He was returned
to Toombs County and
booked into the Detention
Center.
Middle Judicial Circuit
District Attorney Tripp
Fitzner said that Harrington
was initially given immu
nity in the case, but that
immunity was not finalized
by Superior Court Judge
Kathy Palmer. Later, Judge
Bobby Reeves reviewed the
case and decided to proceed
and bring the case to court.
Fitzner said that al
though Harrington wasn’t
found guilty of either of the
murder charges, he could
still face a sentence of 30
years in prison on the three
charges of which he was
convicted. His sentencing
is scheduled for December
20.
Additionally, since
his incarceration at the
Toombs County Detention
Center, Harrington has also
been charged with three
counts of rioting in a penal
institution, as well as the
unauthorized possession of
a weapon by an inmate. He
was denied bond on all of
those charges.
At the time of the
2018 shooting, Harrington
was 19, and had a previous
criminal record for theft by
taking and theft by shoplift
ing.
The incident was inves
tigated by the Vidalia Police
Department and the Geor
gia Bureau of Investigation.
Crossword Puzzle
Solution, page 12A
CLUES ACROSS
1. You fry food in it
4. Pesky insect
5. Gets older
10. Dem, actress
11. Uncouth man
12. One who sulks
13. Napoleon’s king of Naples
15. One who swims underwater
16. Make amends
17. Expressions
1S. Document format
21. What a beaver makes
22. Limb
23. Photograph
CLUES DOWN
1. Town in central Brazil
2. Large burrowing rodent
3. Nerve cell
4. Estimating
5. Bakers use it
6. Regions
7. Small lake
9. Environmentalist nun
10. More kookie
12. Announce officially
14. Israeli city Aviv
15. Title given to friar
17. Inches per minute (abbr.)
19. Buildings
24. Golf score
25. Moroccan mountain range
26. Wrinkled dog breed: Shar
27. 20th century sex symbol
34. Remedy for all diseases
35. Bluish greens
36. Moved swiftly
37. Type of units
38. Madames
39. Indian religious god
40. Potentially hazardous asteroids
41. Leak slowly through
42. An association of criminals
43. A way to push content (abbr.)
20. Pouch
23. They steal on the high seas
24. It’s mightier than the sword
25. Going off on a tangent
26. Monetary unit
27. Young woman
28. Type of bulb
29. Type of drug (abbr.)
30. City opposite Dusseldorf
31. Animal disease
32. Martini necessities
33. Elude
34. La : Buenos Aires capital
36. An oft-enduring symbol
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