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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
VOTE
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requirements change.
The electronic machines
that now make voting pos
sible have to be maintained
and tested in preparation for
each election.
On the eve of an election,
workers can be found at
the poll location setting up.
Tuesday mornings, all work
ers are required by the state
to be in their precincts by 6
a.m. to swear in and finish
setting up.
The manager swears in
the assistant(s) and clerks.
The assistant swears in the
manager. The number of
assistants and clerks varies
depending on the size of the
precinct.
All workers are trained
to be familiar with various
situations.
They know what to do in
the cases of a voter not hav
ing identification to being
disabled. Each precinct is
equipped with a Voters With
Disabilities kit to allow those
who are blind, for example,
be able to vote confidential
ly-
Sue Walker of the Board
of Elections stresses that no
voter will be turned away,
whether there is an identifi
cation problem or a registra
tion problem.
Staff at the Board is on
call the day of the election to
assist with any problems or
questions the poll workers
may face.
Walker assures that there
continues to be a paper trail
even though the voting pro
cess is now computerized.
This allows names, address
es, and vote counts to be
cross-referenced so that they
can be checked and checked
again.
In the event of a discrepan
cy, the voter will be allowed
to cast a provisional vote on
election day and over the
next couple days, arrange
ments will be made to satis
fy the missing requirement
or to verify registration. The
voter will be mailed a let
ter explaining whether or
MDA
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MDA Firefighter
Appreciation Month. Please
save your change and help
them “fill the boot.”
“It’s nice to get out in the
public, talk with the people,
and give the kids stickers and
NEW
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Borghelli said.
The new ambulance for
the south end will be a 24-
hour, seven days a week,
and the second 24-hour unit
for the south end, Borghelli
said. Six additional full time
employees will staff that
ambulance.
PERRY
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at the meeting by Perryan
Jack Smith, have made
requests for annexation of
two sites, one 46.13 acres, and
one 153.661 acres, into the
City of Perry. Development
plans would be for one-fam
ily homes. The two develop
ments, if approved, would
bring about 700 new homes
to the area.
The members of the
board unanimously voted to
approve the requests, but
will now have to hear citi
zens a second time, and vote
a second time.
Planning and Zoning votes
are essentially recommenda
tions to the elected officials.
The final decision will
be made by the Perry City
Council.
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HDJ/Kristy Warren
Harry W. Miller casts his advanced vote in the primary
election.
not the vote was eventually
cast.
At the close of the polls,
the line is closed and the
remaining voters will be
allowed to cast their bal
lot. However, the work has
just begun for the Board of
Elections employees.
According to Joy Greene,
manager of the Kathleen
precinct and part-time
employee of the Board of
Elections, her location has
only five voting machines
and it may take her an hour
to close down her machines
and make final calculations,
but then she has to drive to
Perry to turn in all the sup
plies, which means stand
ing in line with the other
poll managers to ensure all
equipment and documenta
tion are accounted for. For
precincts like Feagin Mill,
toys,” says Micheal Land of
the Perry Fire Department.
“We always get a lot of
positive support from the
public,” said Mark Barron.
“They always tell us how
happy they are to see us out
there.”
Proceeds will support
MDA’s efforts to continue
serving local families in the
Central and West Georgia
areas, including 46 fami-
“The Med Stop location is
ideal to reduce call times in
the south and east end of the
county,” Borghelli said. “We
will still have some based at
Periy Hospital,” he added.
One of the north end
ambulances will now be sta
tioned at Houston Pavilion.
Another short hour ambu
lance will be will be post
ed at County Fire Station
No. 7 on Water Road near
Smithfield Church Road on
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PUBLIC NOTICE
The Houston County Commissioners will hold a
Public Hearing on July 18, 2006 at 6:oopm at the
County Annex in Warner Robins, GA. for the purpose
of hearing objections if any to an application filed
by Charlie Frank Gooch for the purpose of selling
Beer, Wine and Liquor comsumption at 501 Dunbar
Rd. Warner Robins, GA. All interested parties are
invited to attend.
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the process is much longer,
as they have closer to 20 vot
ing machines.
Back at the Board of
Elections, the staff has been
in the office all day and must
remain until late into the
night or the wee hours of
the morning, tallying up the
paper trail from all 28 loca
tions and uploading the indi
vidual station computer data
to the office database.
For those who believe a
final outcome is possible in
one night- it’s not. Absentee
ballots from the military
(however, you need not even
have a legitimate reason to
receive an absentee ballot)
are still being received and
the votes cast by provision
ary ballots must be verified.
June 19 was the cut-off
to register to vote in the
July 18 election, but there
lies in Houston County, by
providing assistance in the
purchase and maintenance
of wheelchairs, leg braces
and speech communication
devices, as well as funding
research aimed at curing
neuromuscular disease.
In addition, children living
with muscular dystrophy,
ages 6-21, can attend MDA
Summer Camp at Camp
Twin Lakes in Rutledge for
the west side of the county.
This one, along with
the 24-hour ambulance at
County Fire Station No. 1
will help develop a relation
ship with the fire depart
ment, said Borghelli. “The
fire stations are more strate
gically located,” he said.
EMS shares in training
with the city and county fire
departments, Borghelli said,
“Our specialty is medical
and we get rescue training
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Joy Greene and Debra Presswood must make a change to each precinct’s box after an
injunction involving forms of ID was passed down to them Friday.
is still time to register for
November’s governor’s race.
Registration is available at
one week where they will
participate in specialized
events and develop new
friendships, build self-confi
dence and discover indepen
dence.
At the end of their fund
raising campaign, a repre
sentative from the Perry
Fire Department will make
a check presentation during
the 2006 MDA Jerry Lewis
Labor Day Telethon broad-
from the fire departments.”
While some of the firefight
ers are also EMTs (emergen
cy medical technicians), each
ambulance has at least one
paramedic with the other
being an EMT-intermediate,
which Borghelli explained is
more training than an EMT.
Some of the EMS person
nel are also full-time police
or firefighters. Ned Dixon is
one of those who works full
time for EMS and a local fire
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HOUSTON
WELLNESS
the Department of Human
Resources, recruitment
offices, libraries, the County
cast on WMAZ-13 (CBS) on
Sept. 3 and 4.
MDA (www.mda.org) is
a voluntary health agency
working to find treatments
and cures for 43 neuromus
cular diseases through pro
grams of worldwide research,
comprehensive medical and
community services and far
reaching professional and
public health education.
MDA is the first non-
department.
“Our paramedics and
EMTs are dedicated to com
munity service,” Borghelli
noted. “They to demonstra
tion for local organizations
and at schools and serve
on committees to improve
treatment.”
On of those is the STAR
program, where EMS per
sonnel meet with special
needs families “so we know
what their needs are.”
Tuesdays and Thursdays
July 11,13,18, 20, 25 &27
6:30 -7: 30 p.m.
Houston Wellness Center
233 N, Houston Road, Suite 133, Warner Robim
To sign up, call 923-4567.
Cost is S3O per family.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2006
Annex Building in Warner
Robins and at the Board of
Elections offices in Perry.
profit organization honored
with the American Medical
Association Lifetime
Achievement Award for “sig
nificant and lasting contri
butions to the health and
welfare of humanity.”
For more information
about the “Fill-the-Boot”
campaign or MDA, please
contact Bridgett Monroe at
(478) 471-9090.
“We meet with other agen
cies constantly,” Borghelli
said, other ambulance ser
vices, police and fire depart
ments, “to determine the
best way to serve the com
munity. Our focus is to be
servants of the community.”
“We want to be sure we’re
there in the time of need and
give the most professional
service possible,” Borghelli
said. “Most of us live in
county.”.
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