Oconee County, GA Politics

  Statement from Oconee County Government Regarding Easy Vote The Oconee County Board of Elections has been notified by Easy Vote, a vendor involved with absentee and advance voting, that a data breach has taken place. Easy Vote has secured the site and moved all files, and all voters that were affected are being reviewed. Easy Vote has informed the county that the affected data included information that is  currently   public record with the exception of date of birth.   The breach occurred from an export of the daily voter file   on January 13, 2022. No   social security numbers or driver’s license numbers were affected. Easy Vote also serves over 120 of the 159 counties in Georgia, including Oconee County, which it has served since 2015 without prior incident.    Questions regarding this incident should be directed to Easy Vote CFO Charles Davis at   cdavis@easyvotesolutions.com .   Oconee County Government is committed to ensuring th...

Oconee County Observations: Oconee County Schools Planning To Begin Work Next ... : ***Construction To Be Completed In 2024*** Oconee County Schools plans to issue a request for proposals for construction of a New Instruct...

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  BEARING WITNESS... “While white mob violence against African Americans was an obsession in the South, it was not limited to that region. White supremacy was and is an American reality.  Whites lynched Blacks in nearly every state, including New York, Minnesota, and California. Wherever Blacks were present in significant numbers, the threat of being lynched was always real.  Blacks had to watch their step, no matter where they were in America.  A Black man could be walking down the road, minding his business, and his life could suddenly change by meeting a white man or a group of white men or boys who on a whim decided to have some fun with a Negro; and this could happen in Mississippi or New York, Arkansas, or Illinois.  By the 1890s, lynching fever gripped the South, spreading like cholera, as white communities made Blacks their primary target, and torture their focus.  Burning the Black victim slowly for hours was the chief method of torture.  Lync...

From: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <ajc@em.ajc.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 8:49 AM To: danmatt@hotmail.com <danmatt@hotmail.com> Subject: The Morning Jolt: What three standing ovations say about the state of Georgia politics   News and analysis from the politics team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution View in browser Thank you for being a subscriber ► The Morning Jolt January 25, 2022 It's worth knowing what's really going on ► By Patricia Murphy WITH GREG BLUESTEIN AND TIA MITCHELL   Patricia Murphy is the Political Insider columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She has covered state and national politics, Congress and the White House.   The Jolt: What three standing ovations say about the state of...