Elections board considers residency ‘soup’

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    Eatonton Messenger/File Photo
The Putnam County Board of Elections spent an hour and a half last week “trying to make spaghetti out of soup,” according to county attorney Adam Nelson’s backroom lawyer-ese translation. The “soup” involved interpretations of two sections of the state’s lengthy election code, plus even a mention of local legislation that applied only to Putnam when an incumbent’s home is moved out of a district…

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