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Special Metro Elections Bring Out Few Voters
Jim Burress (2008-09-17)
ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - (To hear the audio version of this story, click on "Listen: MP3" above.) In the newly formed city of Dunwoody, Ken Wright ran unopposed to win the city's first Mayoral race. Voters there also settled five of six city council positions. The Third District seat remains open because none of the three candidates got more than half of the vote.

Meanwhile, a small number of Cobb County voters approved a one-percent school tax. The penny tax should provide more than $850-million for Cobb and Marietta school districts. The tax is good for five years. Despite the new tax, the sales tax rate will remain at six-percent. That's because the new tax replaces one that was set to expire.

And in Clayton County, six percent of eligible voters turned out to elect Mary Baker to the embattled school system's board. Baker says she'll do whatever it takes to regain the district's accreditation. Clayton County lost its accreditation this month when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools revoked it. A major reason SACS gave was a dysfunctional school board.


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