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Sunday voting in Lowndes County: second county in Georgia to authorize



Despite some confusion in the WALB story,
the Lowndes County Board of Elections really is the second in the state to authorize Sunday voting, after a request from the Lowndes County Democratic Committee.

Dave Miller wrote for WALB 10 September 2014,

Sunday voting OK’ed for Lowndes,

The Lowndes County Board of Elections announced Wednesday that
Lowndes County will be the second county in Georgia to implement
Sunday Voting.

Lowndes County Commissioners approved the proposal Tuesday. DeKalb
County is the only other county in the state that currently allows
Sunday voting.

I was at the

Lowndes County Commission meeting Tuesday, and I never
heard them mention this.
So I called Lowndes County Election Supervisor Deb Cox and Continue reading →

Raw sewage into the Withlacoochee River again


Spilling Sewage Pictures by Gabe Fisher 3:30 PM 24 March 2013
Valdosta (update: it was Lowndes County’s spill) is famous in Florida again for sewage in our rivers.

Last month it was
flooding at the Withlacoochee Wastwater Treatment Plant.
This month it’s a broken sewer line.
WTXL reported yesterday,

Sewer line burst in Valdosta — Sewage spewing into river,

Nine hundred gallons of sewage is spewing onto the ground and into the
Withlacoochee river, every single minute.

Here’s Valdosta’s

Report of Major Spill
from yesterday:

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