Judge asked to cancel referendum in slave descendants' zoning battle with Georgia county

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Judge asked to cancel referendum in slave descendants' zoning battle with Georgia county
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Elected commissioners of a Georgia county are asking a judge to cancel a special election that challenges zoning changes to a Black community of slave descendants. An attorney for coastal McIntosh County told a judge at a hearing Tuesday that the Oct. 1 referendum is illegal and the county shouldn't have to pay for it.

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Grovner cast an early ballot to overturn the zoning changes Friday morning on her way to the courthouse after arriving on the mainland from Sapelo Island by ferry. “If there are any voters out there who think this is wrong and a waste of taxpayer dollars, those people should come forward,” Moore told the judge.decision last year that upheld another county’s 2022 referendum that blocked officials’ plans to build a launchpad for commercial rockets.

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