{"id":795,"date":"2012-06-02T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/how-do-we-vote-on-t-splost-gretchen-quarterman-sgrc-2011-09-19.html"},"modified":"2012-06-02T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T16:45:12","slug":"how-do-we-vote-on-t-splost-gretchen-quarterman-sgrc-2011-09-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/how-do-we-vote-on-t-splost-gretchen-quarterman-sgrc-2011-09-19.html","title":{"rendered":"How do we vote on T-SPLOST? &mdash; Gretchen Quarterman @ SGRC 2011-09-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T-SPLOST regions are an intermediate level of government in which all the people in the region vote together, not by counties.<\/p>\n<p>Gretchen Quarterman asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7321315780\/in\/photostream\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b0163061044ba970d\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8146\/7321315780_9438d50ff7_m.jpg\"\n\/><\/a> When the 18 counties vote, is it county by county, say Atkinson votes yes, and Lowndes votes no, and if there were 9 counties that voted yes and 9 counties that voted no, or is it the total of all the voters together, and then we say there were 400,000 voters and it&#8217;s a simple majority.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Corey Hull answered:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple majority. It&#8217;s the latter of how you described it, it&#8217;s all the voters together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-uyPJpJMhuA&amp;list=PL62B048FB323C8B78&amp;index=12&amp;feature=plpp_video\"> the video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-uyPJpJMhuA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small> How do we vote on T-SPLOST? <br \/> T-SPLOST Public Meeting, Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC), <br \/>Corey Hull, <br \/>Nolen Cox, Gretchen Quarterman, <br \/> Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 September 2011. <br \/> Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE). <\/small><\/p>\n<p>-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T-SPLOST regions are an intermediate level of government in which all the people in the region vote together, not by counties. 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