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COMMISSIONER POWELL (R) PRESENTED $2,377 CHECK
By Probate Judge Jon Payne, Youth ‘‘Judge’ Krista Jones
Voti C ter
from front page
and Chattooga High, to the
mayors of Summerville, Trion,
Lyerly and Menlo, and to all
civic clubs and groups in the
county. The equipment also be
place(fl on display in local banks
“from time to time,” Payne
said, and it also will be made
available in a central public
location to acquaint residents
with the computerized
operation.
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PROBATE JUDGE JON PAYNE (L) CHECKS OPTECH 1
With Jimmy Strickland, Optech’s Lisa Dean
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which was viewed by county
officials a year ago, offers the
familiarity of paper ballots and
the speed of a computer, Payne
indicated. After el)ections. the
17 machines will likely be
stored in the assembly room at
5 N. Commerce St., across from
the courthouse, Payne
speculated, since it is both
heated and air-conditioned.
Computers require upper and
lower limits on humidity and
temperature.
DEMONSTRATED
Lisa Dean, an elections
system specialist with
Business Records Corp., was
Fresent during the press con
erence in the assembly room
and demonstrated the machine
several times to those present.
Each person was given an op
portunity to cast a ‘“ballot”
and to devise ways to ‘‘defeat”
the machine. None was able to
do so, except Jimm
Strickland, an outspoken a(lt
vocate of the purchase.
He was agle to jam his
ballot inside the machine but
Ms. Dean pointed out that an
election of?icial can easily un
jam the equipment, determine
if the ballot Ead been counted
prior to the jam, and have the
machine give the ballot back to
the voter if it had not been
counted. At no time will the
election official have access to
the stored paper ballots in the
base of the equipment, she
said. o ™
POWER OUTAGE
During a power failure, the
computer will store elec
tronically the ballots already
cast, she explained, and when
the power is restored, it will
grint out how many ballots had
een cast to that point. In case
of a prolonged power failure in
any precinct, ballots could be
stored in a traditional, locked
ballot box and then fed into the
machine by election officials
after the polls close, Ms. Dean
said. Such an occurrence
should be rare, she indicated.
If a ballot is cast incorrect
ly, the machine will return it to
the voter immediately so he
will “‘have a second chance’ to
correct any error and ensure
that the ballot will be counted,
Ms. Dean said.
CAPACITY
Each unit can handle more
than 1,500 voting positions
and store over 65,000 votes in
its electronic memory unit, ac
cording to Optech I brochures.
Each machine will have
three ‘‘audit trails,”” the
literature says, including the
electronic memory pack, the
precinct election result prin
tout, and the ballot itself
stored in the base of.the
machine.
The six-inch wide ballot can
range in length from 12 to 24
inches and more than 300 can
didate names may be printed
on one ballot, the Optech
brochure said. They mayge in
serted into the machine from
any direction, upside down or
backwards, and they will still
be counted correctly, Ms. Neal
said.
PENCIL
The ballots are marked with
an ordinary soft lead pencil,
she demonstrated.
A standard machine stands
34 inches high, is 15 inches
wide and 31 inches deep. It
weighs 125 pounds.
The Optech 1 equipment
was approved by the state of
Georgia last summer, as
reported by The News in
August, 1986. It has also been
approved by the U. S. Justice
Department, Payne said.
Fowler Aide Visits
Mike Bradford, field
representative of U.S. Sen.
Wyche Fowler Jr., visited
Chattooga County last Friday.
Bradford met with Sue
Spivey, executive vice presi
dent of the Chattooga
Chamber of Commerce to
discuss the county's need for
additional doctors. He plans to
meet with other community of
ficials in the future in an el}lort
to help the county solve its
medical care problems.
Fairway Field
Renovation Set
The fence at the Fairway
ballfield in Northeast Summer
ville will be moved 30 feet
closer to home plate in hopes of
encouraging its use as a soft
ball fielfi, and efforts will be
made to replace infield light
poles before the season begins.
That was another major
piece of business decided by
the Summerville Recreation
Board at a called meeting last
week. (See related story).
COST
Ralph Stanley, recreation
director, said infield light poles
at the Fairway fi(fid need
rerlacing because thef' could
fall. He estimated total cost of
replacing the lighting system
could be as much as $30,000.
He pointed out, however,
that gummerville Mayor
Sewell Cash was attempting to
obtain poles at low cost. C%sh
was at the Board meeting last
Thursday.
Guinn Hankins, Board
chairman, suggested that
IF)‘?al:ed dmer;lber ?harles
Ils evelop specifications
for Ll:'gyelectric%l ‘;)e;rt of the
lighting system and the panel
seek bids on the project. The
board approved the suggestion
following Elsberry's motion
and the second of Jessie Mann,
another Board member.
MOVE FENCE
Use of the Fairway and
Bolling Road fields during the
spring softball season was
discussed by the panel. Rota
tion of the fields by the men's
league and church league was
discussed. After the issues was
batted back and forth for
several minutes, Elsberry mov
ed that the outfield fence at
Fairway be moved 30 feet
closer to home plate, from 320
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feet at centerfield to 290 feet,
making the field more attrac
tive to softball teams. The pro
posal was approved
unanimously.
The work is scheduled to be
done by recreation department
crews,
In other action, the board
approved hours for the comi:s
season at the Bolling Ro
complex and at Fairway. The
Bollm{ Road center will be
(lu)en rom 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
onday through Friday and
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each
Saturday. The Fairway field
will be open from 1 to 9 p.m.
Monday through Thursday,
closed on Friday and open from
1 to 6 p.m. each Saturday,
CDBG
Mayor Cash reported to the
Board that the Council had
Fiven its authorization to app
y for a $400,000 Community
Development Block Grant
(CDBG) next December for a
multi-purpose recreation
building to be located at Fair
way. The facility would include
a gymnasium, he said.
Hoping the application
would be a joint city-county
project, giving it a better
chance of bein%l approved,
Mayor Cash said he contacted
Harry Powell, Chattooga
County commissioner, about
joint sponsorshi;l) of the %{ant.
Cash said he told Powell the
application wouldn't cost the
county any money and that the
city would handle all the
paperwork.
Commissioner Powell in
dicated he would consider the
co-sponsorship, Cash told the
Board.
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Wind Storm Causes
County Power Outage
All Chattooga County was
without electrical power for a
short time Wednesday morn
ing, due to a windstorm that
blew over two utility poles and
caused a short circuit in the
115,000 volt main lines that
provide power to the county.
Mike Smith of Georgia
Power Co. said power went out
about 7:55 andp came back on
around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday.
High wind gusts knocked
down one pole and lodged
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The Summerville News, Thursday, March 19, 1987
FAIRWAY RECREATION CENTER FIELD TO BE IMPROVED
Outfield Fence To Be Moved Closer, Light Poles May Be Replaced
another in the transmission
lines from Plant Hammond
near Rome. The poles were
located near the sugstation on
Maple Drive in Summerville.
As a consequence, all of
Georgia Power's 7,550
customers in Summerville,
Trion, Menlo and Lyerly were
without power. The outage also
affected all of North Georgia
EMC’s 5,200 customers in
rural areas of Chattooga Coun
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Smith said the winds, com
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overniiht rains, also caused a
few other isolated problems.
Greeson said EMC had had no
other problems in Chattooga
but said a windstorm or tor
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