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Judge thinkieg of
tossing state ID law
ATLANTA (A?) - A judge
being asked to throw out
Georgia’s photo ID require
ment for voters showed
uneasiness about the law
from the bench Friday as
he heard arguments in sup
port of the measure from the
state’s attorneys.
Fulton County Superior
Court Judge T. Jackson
Bedford Jr. didn’t rule at
the end of a four-hour hear
ing and didn’t say when he
might issue a decision, but
he was clearly concerned the
law may be a burden on
some voters.
The hearing was part of
the latest effort by former
Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes and
others to block enforcement
of the law, which took effect
July 1 and was enforced
for the first time this past
week in early balloting for a
special election Tuesday in
Twiggs County.
Bedford asked the state’s
attorneys to explain how
requiring a voter to take
the extra step of obtaining
government-issued photo
identification to cast a ballot
serves the public interest.
“I’m struggling with that.
That’s bothering me, that
one step,” the judge said.
“That might be, arguably, a
burden on the right to vote.
... The problem here is that
the state is putting the bur
den on the voter.”
Attorney Mark Cohen,
who was representing the
state, responded that it is
reasonable to ask voters to
prove their identity, a step
necessary to prevent voter
fraud. He told the judge
that all eligible voters are
still free to vote absentee
without having to present a
photo ID.
“There is no right to vote
any particular way in this
state,” Cohen said. “That’s
completely at the discretion
of the legislature.”
Barnes, a private attorney
from Marietta, said in-per-
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Chattanooga,TN 83 64 pt sunny
Columbus 89 69 t-storm
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National Cities
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Boston 67 51 rain
Chicago 66 59 rain
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son voting is a preference for
many in Georgia, especially
those who may need help
with the process, including
the elderly, disabled, poor
and illiterate _ the same
groups most likely not to
carry a driver’s license or
other valid photo ID. Also,
no one is allowed to vote
absentee on election day in
Georgia.
Teen charged in
baby case
ATHENS - A teenage girl
who left her hours-old infant
son in the storage room of a
West Athens apartment com
plex last week was arrested
Thursday and charged with
child abandonment and fel
ony child cruelty, Athens-
Clarke police said.
A tip led investigators to
17-year-old Gloria Aracely
Contreras after someone
who knew the teen report
ed Wednesday that she had
been expecting but was no
longer pregnant, according
to police.
When police questioned
her at the Riverfront
Apartments home she
shares with her parents,
Contreras, who already has
a 2-year-old child, admitted
she abandoned the baby in
the same complex, which is
on Sycamore Drive off West
Broad Street.
Investigators had
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canvassed Riverfront
Apartments at least twice,
looking for residents who
might know a woman who
recently gave birth. Police
would not reveal who tipped
them off that Contreras was
the abandoned baby’s moth
er.
A man found the infant
at about 4 a.m. last Friday
after he heard crying com
ing from a storage area of a
laundry room at the apart
ment complex, police said.
The boy, who was between
2 and 5 hours old, had been
left without a blanket or
other protection inside a
stove’s empty burner.
Contreras has expressed
remorse, according to police
Capt. Clarence Holeman,
who would not say why the
teen abandoned her baby.
“She was pretty emotional
because she realized what
kind of problems she cre
ated by doing what she did,”
Holeman said.
“I’m trying to be a little
sympathetic to her, even
though what she did wasn’t
right, and I’m not going to
spell her whole life story out
in the media.”
The baby, who is in good
health after initially being
treated for exposure and
low blood-sugar, was placed
with a foster family by the
Clarke County Department
of Family and Children
Services.
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Thomasville 91 68 t-storm
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CAROLYN B. CUMMINGS
WARNER ROBINS - Carolyn B. Cummings, passed away
in a local hospital Thursday. Services will be held today at 11
a.m. in the chapel of Heritage Memorial Funeral Home with
burial in Brownwood Cemetery at 3 p.m. in Sandersville.
Cummings was born in Oconee to the late Henry and Pearl
Wominack Bennett. She was a loving wife, mother and
grandmother.
GOP wants probe of
Taylor's ties to money
ATLANTA (AP)
Republicans called for an
investigation Friday after
a newspaper reported that
six state agencies have paid
Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Mark Taylor’s
family more than $2.6 mil
lion for property leases over
the past three decades.
State laws do not prohibit
public officials or their rela
tives from leasing property
to the state.
There is no record that
Tayloi" ever attempted to
influence the leases, and
Taylor spokesman Rick Dent
said the lieutenant governor
has not personally benefited
from the leases.
Taylor is paid SIOO,OOO a
year as a board member and
vice president in his father’s
trucking firm, Fred Taylor
Co. InC.
One government watchdog
said Taylor’s ties to the leas
es raise ethical questions.
“Having an interest in
a company that does busi
ness with the government
you are serving is some
thing elected officials should
avoid, in fact most do,” Bill
Bozarth, executive direc-.
tor of Common Cause of
Georgia, told The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
Republicans on Friday
called for an investigation
by thb state attorney gen
eral, saying the lease deals
appear to violate the state
code of ethics.
“I don’t know that it meets
the sriiell test,” state Sen.
Don Balfour, R-Snellville,
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segregate his business deal
ings with the state from his
son as Mark Taylor’s politi
cal career took off. In 2002,
he changed two leases that
were held by Fred Taylor Co.
- the management
his son drew a salary from
- into his own name.
Just months before Mark
Taylor was elected lieutenant
governor for a second term,
Fred Taylor wrote a letter
to the state Department of
Administrative Services ask
ing them to write the rent
checks to him personally.
“Due to Mark’s politics
and the fact that he sits on
the Board of Fred Taylor
Co., we felt it is necessary to
amend each of these leases,”
the letter said.
State Department of
Revenue Commissioner Bart
Graham said bn Friday that,
despite the name change,
correspondence with his
agency - which had leased
space from the Fred Taylor
Co. in Albany continued to
arrive on. company letter
head.
“I always thought I was
ddmg business with the com
pany,” Graham said.
Graham, who was appoint
ed to his post by Republican
Gov. Sonny Perdue, became
locked in a dispute with Fred
Taylor over the condition of
the space his agency was
leasing in the Taylor compa
ny headquarters in Albany.
Bozarth said Taylor should
have severed his ties with
the company doing business
with the state when he was
to statewide office
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