Sunday Edition September 8, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Elections supervisor: rollout Cartersville of new voting equipment will City Council require ‘community effort’ approves youth BY JAMES SWIFT we’re going to show them how we do things in
[email protected] Bartow County, and we’re going to do this right.” In July it was announced the Dominion sports, This fall, Bartow County will be one of just Voting Systems received a roughly $107 mil- six counties throughout Georgia to test out the lion contract to provide new electronic voting State’s new voting equipment. equipment, with paper ballot processing capa- resurfacing “This November and then going into next bilities, throughout the state. March, the eyes of the state and the nation are As the new machines come online for this contracts going to be on us,” Bartow County Elections November’s municipal-level elections, Kirk JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Supervisor Joseph Kirk said at a presentation at said input and assistance from other stakehold- BY JAMES SWIFT Bartow County Elections Supervisor Jospeh Kirk gave a pre- the Frank Moore Administration and Judicial ers throughout Bartow is essential.
[email protected] view of Georgia’s new voting equipment at a presentation Tues- Center in Cartersville Tuesday evening. day afternoon. “There was a good reason they chose us — SEE VOTING, PAGE 6A Thursday evening’s Car- tersville City Council meeting largely revolved around a se- ries of contracts, agreements and bids, running the gamut Man who led from guardrail replacements and new police vehicle purchas- police on high- es to emergency sewer repairs and a $3 million-plus Georgia speed chase IVING ROOF Department of Transportation L P (GDOT) airport grant.