Editing Quitman County, Georgia (section)

==Politics==
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From the 1940s to 1960s Joe Hurst dominated politics in Quitman County, delivering votes for statewide officials, state judges, and prosecuting attorneys, under the [[County unit system]] which gave Quitman two units, a third as many as the biggest counties in the state. He hand-delivered state welfare checks and prevented secret ballots. In 1962 he stuffed the ballot box for future President [[Jimmy Carter]]'s opponent in a state senate primary. Carter won a series of court cases to remove his Democratic primary opponent's name from the general election ballot. There was no Republican candidate. Both candidates used radio ads to ask voters to vote by write-in, and Carter won the general election. Hurst was later convicted of fraud in an earlier primary, for which he had a fine and three years probation. He was also convicted of selling moonshine, for which he went to prison.<ref name="carter">{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Jimmy |title=Turning point: a candidate, a state, and a nation come of age |date=1992 |publisher=Times Books |isbn=978-0-8129-2079-6 |edition=1 |location=New York |pages=74–204}}</ref>
<ref name="bourne">{{Cite book |last=Bourne |first=Peter G. |title=Jimmy Carter: a comprehensive biography from Plains to postpresidency |date=1997 |publisher=A Lisa Drew book Scribner |isbn=978-0-684-19543-8 |location=New York |pages=113–132}}</ref>