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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9. 2021 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 3A
Raffensperger pushing feds to disclose
potential collusion on election law challenge
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA - Georgia Sec
retary of State Brad Raf
fensperger has filed a lawsuit
to prod the Justice Depart
ment into acting on a Free
dom of Information (FOIA)
request the state agency sub
mitted last summer.
The request sought infor
mation on any communica
tions the Biden
administration may have had
with prominent liberal
groups concerning a Justice
Department lawsuit challeng
ing the election law reforms
the General Assembly passed
last March.
Other than confirmations
of receipt, the state has re
ceived no response to the
FOIA request.
“Considering how bla
tantly political the Biden law
suit against Georgia’s
common-sense election law
was from the beginning, it’s
no surprise they would
stonewall our request for
basic transparency,” Raf
fensperger said Wednesday.
The administration’s law
suit, filed in June, claimed
Georgia’s election reform
law violated the federal Vot
ing Rights Act by discrimi
nating against Black voters.
The new law replaces the
signature-match verification
process for absentee ballots
with an ID requirement. It
also restricts the location of
absentee ballot drop boxes.
“The provisions we are
challenging reduce access to
absentee voting at each step
of the process, pushing more
Black voters to in-person vot
ing, where they will be more
likely than white voters to en
counter long lines,” Kristen
Clarke, the assistant attorney
general overseeing the Jus
tice Department’s Civil
Rights Division, said at the
time.
Raffensperger’s legal
complaint charges the Justice
Department stonewalling “is
depriving plaintiffs and the
public of vital information
needed to determine the ex
tent to which and by what
methods the government is
colluding or conspiring with
outside entities to carry out a
political agenda.”
The complaint specifi
cally names 62 outside indi
viduals and entities, includ
ing Fair Fight Action, a
voting rights group founded
by 2018 Georgia gubernato
rial candidate Stacey
Abrams; the American Civil
Liberties Union, and the
Southern Poverty Law Cen
ter.
It also argues that states
including Delaware, New
York, Rhode Island, New Jer
sey, Maryland and Wisconsin
have similar election rides
yet are not being sued by the
feds.
This story is available
through a news partnership with
Capitol Beat News Service, a
project of the Georgia Press Ed
ucational Foundation.
How to keep gifts secret and hidden
Surprising loved ones and
friends with gifts is part of
the excitement of the holiday
season. It can be just as exhil
arating for gift-givers to wit
ness the gifts being opened as
for the recipients who are
tearing into the paper to re
veal their gifts. But in order
for presents to be the ultimate
surprises, it is essential for
items purchased to remain a
secret.
Whether shopping online
or in-store, gift buyers can do
their best to hide gifts from
others.
Online shopping
The popularity of online
shopping has now made it
possible for just about any
thing to be purchased from
the comfort of home or while
on-the-go. This same con
venience has created a new
obstacle pertaining to keep
ing gifts a secret, especially
from a spouse or children liv
ing in the same house. Gift-
givers have to essentially be
package ninjas, intercepting
parcels from delivery people
and burying the digital trail
leading back to the purchase.
Here are some tips for suc
cess.
• Clear your web search
history and computer cache
frequently on shared devices.
This way you avoid loved
ones stumbling across past
searches for gifts as well as
seeing all of those advertise
ments that seemingly pop up
magically in accordance with
your search history.
• Use your work email for re
ceipts and purchase corre
spondence. This helps when
spouses share one email ac
count.
• Investigate if online retail
ers have private shopping
modes, which may mask pur
chases from others.
• Create a family account to
mask orders. Retailers like
Amazon enable you to set up
family sharing. This way
each family member can
have a unique log in, which
will then separate order his
tory logs among relatives.
This helps relieve the stress
of wondering if the kids saw
your long history list of past
purchases.
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Regardless of how gifts are purchased, make sure to
promptly wrap and hide presents so they are not discovered
before the big day.
• Turn off push notifications
of purchases or when the
items will ship. This is key
for those who share digital
devices and accounts. You’ll
avoid the message of “Name
item has just shipped” from
being shared with others.
• Opt to have items shipped
to the store for in-store
pickup, or arrange for an al
ternate delivery address.
In-store purchases
Shoppers who do the bulk
of their shopping at brick-
and-mortar shops may have
an easier job of keeping pur
chases a secret.
• Invest in a nondescript,
opaque shopping tote that
will not draw attention to
where you have shopped. Re
tailers love to emblazon their
shopping bags with names
and logos, and that can cue
savvy kids and adults as to
where you shopped.
• Pay in cash as much as pos
sible. Reduce the paper trail
of purchases by purchasing
the more secretive gifts with
cash.
• Tuck receipts into a well-
hidden place that others will
not think to look.
• Consider shopping on lunch
hour at work and hiding gifts
in the office until they can be
brought to the house when
others are not home.
Clues Across
1. Polish city
6. Very eager
10. Identifies a specific person or
thing
14. Tennis great Naomi
15. One concerned by professional
advancement
17. PGA Championship reward
19. A fashionable hotel
20. Norse mythology afterlife loca
tion
21. Stood up
22. Car mechanics group
23. Weather forecasters use it
(abbr.)
24. Broken branch
26. Astronomy unit
29. East Asian nursemaid
31. “Airplane!” actor
32. Exclamation that denotes dis
gust
34. “Batman” villain
35. Downfalls
37. Philippine province
38. Once-vital TV part
39. Valley
40. Tax
41. Classic Scorcesefilm
43. Subway dwellers
45. Book part
46. Taxi
47. Pancakes made from buck
wheat flour
49. Swiss river
50. Founder of Babism
53. Have surgery
57. Withdrawal from a larger entity
58. Lot's father
59. Greek war god
60.2,000 lbs.
61. Lemur
Clues Down
1. Quarrels
2. Right away
3. Comedian Carvey
4. Egyptian unit of weight
5. A Brit's mother
6. Tropical tree
7. One who speaks Gaelic
8. NHL legend Bobby
9. Vacation spots
10. Military personnel
11. Shakira's don’t lie
12. Wimbledon champ
13. Teletypewriter
16. Mistakes
18. Whale ship captain
22. Thus
23. From end to end
24. Kids love him
25. One and only
27. Fencing swords
28. Taxis
29. Basics
30. Refuse of grapes
31. Go quickly
33. French ballet dynasty
35. Most open
36. Popular soap ingredient
37. US time zone (abbr.)
L
39. Items of food
42. Backbones
43. Infrequent
44. Blood type
46. “Let It Snow!” songwriter
47. Dutch colonist
48. Pike
49. Egyptian sun god
50. A cardinal is one
51. From a distance
52. Bolivian river
53. N. American student organiza
tion (abbr.)
54. River (Spanish)
55. Chinese life force
56. Chinese surname
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Jasper United Methodist Church
“WITNESS HIS MAJESTY”
(Advent Sermons)
November 28th
James 2:14-26
“Innkeeper’s Son’’
Dec. 5th
Matthew 1:18-25
“Joseph”
Dec. 12th
Luke 1:26-38
“Mother of Maty”
Dec. 19th
Luke 2:8-20
“Shepherd's Wife”
Dec. 24th
Luke 2:1-20
“He’s Here!”
BREAKFAST WITH SANTA
Saturday, December 4th, 8:00 am
(online registration)
GOLDEN BELLS OF ATLANTA CONCERT
Monday, December 6th, 7:30 pm
LADIES CHRISTMAS BANQUET
Tuesday, December 7th, 6:30 pm
PRESCHOOL CHRISTMAS PAGEANT
Thursday, December 16th, 7:00 pm
SPECIAL MUSIC
Sunday, December 5th, 11:00 am
Presented by our Chancel Choir,
& Kids of the Kingdom
Sunday, December 12th, 11:00 am
Chancel Choir, Youth Choir & Youth Bells
Sunday, December 19th, 11:00 am
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CHRISTMAS EVE
CANDLELIGHT SERVICES
Friday, December 24th
5:00 pm-Contemporary, 7:00 pm-Traditional
Sunday, December 26th
11:00 am-One service only
9:45 am-Sunday School
SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP SERVICES:
9:00 am-Contemporary, 9:45 am-Sunday School, 11:00 am-Traditional
85 West Church Street, Jasper, GA 30143
Phone: 706-253-2100 Fax: 706-253-2110
www.jasperumc.org
Facebook: Jasper United Methodist Church YouTube: Jasper UMCGA
Pastor: Rev. Greg Meadows
Director of Christian Education: Kelly Wisniewski
Director of Congregational Care: Gerry Gleason
MusicM/orship Leader: Roxanne B. Golden
Director of Youth Ministry: Eric Justice
Contemporary Worship Leader: Nathaniel Singletary