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July 2014
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Southwire’s annual Back
to School Giveaway
seepages 10,12,13
bounty government audit
jficiency in internal control”
see page 14
Tag office will soon have
kiosks on trial run
see page 14
VOLUME 20 NUMBER 7
Princeton study finds DRE voting
machines open to easy vote stealing
Used statewide in Georgia, DREs are vulnerable to malicious
software that “can steal votes with little or if any risk of detection”
by Carole Scott
Voter fraud is not new, and no method of counting votes is
immune to it. In 1948, Lyndon Johnson became Texas Democrats’
candidate for the U.S. Senate in an election he won because a bal
lot box was stuffed with 203 fraudulent paper ballots. These
fraudulent ballots gave him an 87 vote margin over his opponent
out of a total vote of nearly one million. He went on to win the gen
eral election and take a seat in the U.S. Senate.
The notorious dictator Joseph Stalin is attributed to saying, “It is
enough that the people know there was an election. The people
who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes
decide everything.” And one may wonder what Franklin D.
Roosevelt meant when he famously remarked, “Presidents are
selected, not elected.” See PRINCETON STUDY page 3
Primary Election runoff Tuesday, July 22nd
by Sam Gentry
Early voting for the July 22nd Primary Runoff
Election is underway in Carroll County, with the
District 4 seat up for grabs. The runoff race is the
result of the May 20th Primary Election, which
yielded some clear winners locally and statewide, but
only narrowed down the three-way race for District 4
to two candidates, incumbent John Wilson and
Michelle Morgan.
Temple council members
“attend”/vote at called
meeting by cell phone
by Prissi Sullivan
Confusion was the order of the day at the called
meeting of the Temple City Council and Mayor held
June 26, 2014, at the Temple City Hall. Present were
See CELL PHONE page 27
Of the 1,957 votes cast in the primary race for
District 4, Wilson received 731, while challenger
Michelle Morgan received 861. The third candidate,
Wally Dedman, garnered 365 votes.
All three candidates ran as Republicans, and there
is no Democratic challenger, so the winner of the
runoff election will win the District 4 seat.
Republicans living in District 4 have two other
See R UNOFF page 2 7
Villa Rica’s ‘chicken war’
continues...
by Prissi Sullivan
The latest skirmish in the Villa Rica ‘chicken war’
occurred at the July Villa Rica City council and
mayor meeting. Community Development Director
Janet Hyde has - over the course of several years -
received several complaints regarding chickens
See CHICKEN WAR page 25
Carroll County School's transportation department recognized
Jackie Coffee, Director of Transportation for Carroll County Schools displays
the certificate from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, recognizing
Carroll County for equipping their buses with state approved emission devices.
Funds for this feature was provided by a state grant. Photo by Prissi Sullivan
School bus inspections: a bus
passes only with a 100% score
Unlike restaurant inspections, a bus fails with one mark against
by Prissi Sullivan
Not many citizens realize that public
schools are not required by law to provide
transportation for students - but most
Kelly Educational
Staffing to handle
teacher subs for
county schools
by Prissi Sullivan
The Carroll County Board of Education
selected Kelly Educational Staffing to
coordinate all aspects of its substitute
teacher program. Kelly will be the point of
contact for assignment information and
communication among all substitute
employees and school district personnel.
The substitute employees will have access
to group medical insurance plans, training
opportunities, weekly paychecks, direct
See SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS page 7
school systems do nationwide. The Carroll
County Board of Education has been pro
viding transportation for its students for
decades. These school buses receive quite a
bit of wear and tear during the course of a
school year, so maintenance must be a dili-
See BUS INSPECTIONS page 25
State insurance
commissioner
releases Obamacare
stats: 1.5% of
Georgians now
covered through ACA
from press release
With the end of the 2014 open enroll
ment period for the Affordable Care Act,
Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens
released data representing the number of
Georgians who will be insured with health
insurance coverage through the Federal
See 1.5% COVERED page 10
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