By April Hunt
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
North Fulton County News
September 24, 2010
Sandy Springs has become the first Georgia city to bail out of the Voting Rights Act’s federal oversight of its elections.
Now, given the relative cost of the city's legal challenge and what it expects to save on paperwork and running its own elections, more cities in the state and across the South may follow suit.
“The fact is, Section 5 is time consuming, expensive and a regulatory nightmare,” said Doug Chalmers, a Johns Creek attorney who helped Sandy Springs request a U.S. Justice Department exemption from that section of the act. “I would expect a number of jurisdictions wanting to bail out of that.”
No other Georgia cities have made that move.
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