On the recordMarch 10, 1994
As the State of Georgia undertakes the necessary steps to implement the National Voter Registration Act, we are more and more concerned about the cost of this federally imposed mandate. At one time in the discussions of motor voter, to assuage the States, we said they would have lower-cost mail, third-class costs but that it would be treated as first-class mail. Now the Postal Department... has told the States, 'No, that is not so.' So they cannot use the lower-class mail because voter information would not be delivered on time. It could be 3 weeks or longer. So we have welshed, once again, on the burdens that are incumbent upon us to deal with these costs we have imposed on someone else. In this particular case, just this function of the motor voter bill will cost a quarter of a million dollars to the State of Georgia virtually every year.
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