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...this year, while everyone will be rooting for Dwight Howard to become the next Garnett or for Sebastian Telfair to become the next Kobe, I won’t be swept up in the hype...
...Atlanta Journal's George E. Goodwin, for local reporting-exposure of the Telfair County vote frauds (TIME, March...
...Gene Talmadge, son Herman's chances were slim. In the first count of write-in ballots, he was running third among the contenders, and the new governor was to be chosen from the top two. Then, suddenly, 58 new votes-all from Talmadge's home county of Telfair-put Hummon back into the running. Ever since then, thoughtful Georgians have been wondering about those 58 votes. Last week they found out. After a month of cloak-&-dagger sleuthing, the Atlanta Journal splashed a well-documented story of forged ballots across Page One. It was one of the year...
...began with a politician's quiet tip to the Journal's veteran political editor, Earl Gregory. The Telfair ballots, he said, had been fixed. The Journal sent a young reporter named George Goodwin down to Telfair. He made the mistake of telling someone that he was from an Atlanta paper. County officials ducked him, or gave him vague answers. Disheartened, he returned to Atlanta without a story. Then he began digging in the State Secretary's office. In the bottom of a carton full of election-return envelopes, he came across the list of voters from Helena...
...Journal (owned by the Democrats' 1920 presidential candidate, James M. Cox). The rival Constitution, which fought Gene Talmadge in the last election, was strangely noncommittal about the Journal's expose of Hummon. Editor Ralph McGill (whom capitol wiseacres were now calling "the editor dimly seen") blamed the Telfair irregularities not on Hummon but upon "the carelessness generated by the one-party system...