By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
APRIL 16, 2019 | Elections in Gwinnett are very complicated processes, we have known all along. Gwinnett has been blessed to have Lynn Ledford as its Elections Director for the last 17 years. She has worked in the office for 32 years.
Lynn is cool under pressure during Gwinnett elections. Remember, the number of people who have registered in Gwinnett has exploded in recent years, from 86,000 people when Lynn was first in the office to today’s 544,000 Gwinnettians registered. But all went smooth with Lynn supervising operations.
Running the elections division is a two-way job, first simply registering newcomers. But the really significant job is a wider managerial one of supervising the 2,800 to 3,200 people it takes to put on an election. This is especially difficult when you remember that those in charge of the 156 Gwinnett polls are all part time workers. They are recruited seasonally each year to take on the responsibility of making sure the elections are held in the correct manner.
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So here has sat Lynn in the hot seat for these elections. And the Gwinnett elections have taken place smoothly each time. Lately they have been more complicated, especially in view of also now being required to have the elections in Spanish also.
You wouldn’t know it was difficult from dealing with Lynn. She went through these many ballot-casting days in a calm, efficient and deliberate manner. We’re pleased to see her promoted to higher office. Her successor will benefit from her managing and training people in the right way to hold an election!
NEW SUBJECT: Finally, after learning about it in infancy, I’ve figured it out.
Why was it when you were little they were insisting that you knew about colors and shapes of items before you? What was the reason?
It was interesting at the time, since it helped distinguish one item from another. Sometimes there were multiple items of the same shape, hoping to distract you.
Today we find that distinguishing colors and shapes is still useful for us, especially when you are a Senior Citizen.
Here’s why: knowing colors and shapes helps you distinguish the medicine tablets you take by mouth every day.
In the morning, I take four tablets: a green one, a yellow tablet, and two white tablets. One white one is in the shape of a circle, while the other is an elongated pill not as wide at the ends as it is in the middle. Football shape, you might say. See, I recognize it, though was not taught about football shapes when a kid.
For today, without knowing colors and shapes, I would be at a loss as to what medicine I was about to swallow.
And all this makes me appreciate my early childhood educator. I hear I was good at colors and shapes. Good thing, these days.
SANDY MOSS of Loganville responds to a recent photo sent in by Chuck Paul of Norcross, one with lots of white balls of flower blooms. Sandy says that it is a picture is a “Snowball Bush,”which traditionally blooms around the time of “Blackberry Winter” here is Georgia. Thanks, Sandy!
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