#lincolnton

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Alf Hoover Road, Lincolnton, North Carolina.

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$179,900/5 br/2300 sq ft

Lincolnton, GA

built in 1912

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Georgia county looks to close polling sites, have 1 location | AP News

LINCOLNTON, Ga. (AP) — A rural Georgia county north of Augusta is moving ahead with plans to shut down all seven of its voting sites and hav

A rural Georgia county north of Augusta is moving ahead with plans to shut down all seven of its voting sites and have residents vote in person at one location, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Lincoln County Board of Elections Director Lilvender Bolton said a centralized voting center near the city of Lincolnton would give voters a single site for both early and election day voting and provide more space than small, little-used precincts. Lincolnton is about 40 miles (64km) northwest of Augusta in eastern Georgia.

“We really don’t have room in some of our facilities to do social distancing and to do the things that we need to do to keep my poll workers safe,” Bolton said.

Voting rights advocates are crying foul.

“Folks should have access to their polling locations. They should be able to vote without having to drive 30 minutes to get there,” said Cindy Battles of the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, a civil rights group that has been collecting signatures for a petition to try to stop the closures.

The closures would require rural voters in the county to drive 15 miles (24 km) or more to cast a ballot. The county has no public transportation options and no taxis, Uber or Lyft, according to the newspaper.

Bolton told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution most voters usually cast their ballots during three weeks of early voting at a Lincolnton polling site.

Former President Donald Trump handily won the mostly Republican county during the 2020 election. About 28 percent of the county’s roughly 8,000 residents are Black.

The county elections board could vote on the closure plan on January 19. It comes after Georgia’s Republican-controlled Legislature abolished Lincoln’s previous elections board and gave a majority of appointments to the Republican County Commission. Lincoln is one of six counties where state lawmakers reorganized local elections boards, the newspaper said.

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The Mill: A moment's glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year. Rhodes Mfg. Co. Photo credit: Lewis W. Hine — in Lincolnton, North Carolina.

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Chateau Doyon , Late Summer 2020

Chateau Doyon , Late Summer 2020

Bobby D showing off his wood

I have always been one of those guys who feels more at ease with the miscreants, derelicts and deviants than the frat boy “fu*kheads from buckhead” types that I see all too much of now that I’m back down south……. If you are from Georgia you know what I’m talking about! I never was a “GO DAWGS!’ type of guy, and I still have a really hard time with that mentality, but…

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Lincoln County (NC) Sheriff Beam says it is AOK with him that one of his deputies punches in the face a frail, handcuffed 16 year old and then get in the face and threaten the teen’s mother.

Sheriff Beam, AOK with raging/ out of control deputies.

All because a mother took her son in for a mental health screening.

 That’s all it was over.

THIS is why www.aclu.org so necessary because out of control security guards and cops.

https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-gone-rogue/mom-takes-son-to-er-for-mental-health-emergency-but-he-is-beaten-and-arrested-lhtvGXIiTUSMjA7CgYQCeQ