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Georgia Continues To Set
Turnout Records In Voting
Georgia voters continued
to set turnout records in the
recent party primary runoff
election.
Secretary of State David
B. Poythress reports that
954,088 Georgians went to
the polls in the Democratic
showdown on Aug. 26, more
than have ever cast ballots
in that party’s primary run
offs.
This was revealed when
the official results of the run
off election were compiled
by the Secretary of State’s
election division under the
direction of Mrs. Francis
Duncan.
Under Georgia law, the
two leading candidates must
Food Stamp
Cash Change?
ATLANTA ls it legal to
give cash change in food
stamp transactions?
“Yes and no,” explained
officials of the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture’s Food
and Nutrition Service.
“There is nothing wrong,”
Edward W. Davidson, south
east regional director of the
food stamp program, said,
“in giving up to 99 cents in
change in normal food
stamp transactions. How
ever, it is illegal to allow
more than one food coupon
purchase with the same per
son for the express purpose
of providing that person with
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The 1980-81 “Georgia Man
ufacturing Directory,” a
comprehensive guide to 5,-
500 manufacturers and their
products, is available to the
public.
The directory is published
every other year by the state
Department of Industry and
Trade Research Division.
The directory lists manufac
turers alphabetically, by
city/county, parent com
pany and product made. Ad
ditionally, the directory
provides employment totals
and lists the market area
that each manufacturer
serves.
“This directory has pro
ven to be an indespensible
economic development
tool,” said DIT commis
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meet in a runoff in any race
where no one receives 50 per
cent or more of the vote.
Georgia held its primaries
this year on Aug. 5 and its
runoffs on Aug. 26.
A record number of voters
for a primary turned out on
Aug. 5 - 1,076,291. A total of
1,029,153 voted Democratic
and 47,138 voted Republican.
The runoff between Sen.
Herman Talmadge and Lt.
Gov. Zell Miller for the U.S
Senate was the feature race
of the Democratic primary.
In the Republican pri
mary, Brunswick business
man Mack Mattingly won
the U.S Senatorial nomi
nation without a runoff and
more than 99 cents in cash
change.”
Davidson said his office is
receiving an increasingly
large number of reports of
merchants allowing custom
ers to make a series of small
purchases with $1 coupons.
They then take the accumu
lated cash change and buy
ineligible items such as beer
and cigarettes.
“Though some merchants
may feel that they are within
the law,” Davidson said,
“this is clearly circumvent
ing the food stamp regula
tions and is strictly illegal.”
sioner Milton Folds, “both
for industrialists seeking
convenient sources of man
ufactured goods, as well as
those in search of new mar
kets for their own products.”
The directory recently re
ceived a “superior” rating
from the American Eco
nomic Development Council.
The 584-page copyrighted
publication costs S2O and
may be ordered, prepaid, by
mail from the Directory Sec
tion, Georgia Department of
Industry and Trade, Box
1776, Atlanta, Ga. 30301. The
directory may also be
picked up at the DIT office
at 1400 North Omni Interna
tional, Atlanta. The phone
there is (404)656-3614.
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there was no statewide run
off contest on the GOP side.
As a result, most of the
Georgians who voted in the
Republican primary on Aug.
5 could not take part in the
runoffs on Aug. 26.
Several thousand of the
Republican primary partici
pants voted in scattered lo
cal Republican runoff races,
but that represented less
that one per cent of the run
off turnout.
In 1974, 964,594 Georgians
went to the polls for party
primaries. There was a
hotly-contested runoff that
year for the Republican Gu
bernatorial nomination be
tween Macon Mayor Ronnie
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Thompson and former State
Industry and Trade official
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43,800 of those voters.
The Democratic primary
runoff in 1974 drew 920,714
voters, 33,374 less than this
year.
The turnout figures for
1980 indicate that voter in
terest is significantly higher
than it was in the last gen
eral election year. In 1978,
only 722,516 of tbe state’s
more than two million voters
came to the polls in the pri
maries and only 434,166 took
part in the runoffs.
Georgia faces a difficult
test if the state is to continue
setting records in the cli
mactic election of 1980, the
Nov. 4 general election.
General elections in presi
dential years are tradition
ally bigger draws that the
party primaries. In the 1976
presidential election,
Georgians established the
state’s all-time voter record
when 1,467,458 turned out.
That represented 63.7 per
cent of Georgia’s registered
voters.
In the 1972 presidential
year, 1,174,772 Georgians
voted. That was 54 per cent
of the electorate.
In the 1980 primaries, 48.2
per cent voted on Aug. 5 and
42.8 per cent voted on Aug.
26.
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